All politics is partisan, Ian. Otherwise, no need for elections, as in commie countries. High Quality, Low Quality, High Quality, Low Quality --- no Zzzzzz for me.
On 25 Oct 2010 at 18:47, Ian wrote: Nothing wrong with politics Platt, just partisan politics that is a product of SOMism. Left right left right left right subject object subject object .... Zzzzzz Noticed you didn't bother to respond when I started a thread on pragmatic capitalism. But I expect I'm a pinko. Sorry Ian Sent from my iPhone On 25 Oct 2010, at 17:59, Platt Holden <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Craig, > > Was Pirsig intellectually lazy and dishonest in generalizing > that capitalism was superior to socialism? I'm sure in doing > so he was aware of your valid point about generalizations. > But as he wrote, "A science without generalization is no > science at all" (Lila, 4). > > Anyway, the MOQ is about reality. Politics is part of that. > Pirsig didn't hesitate to comment on it. Nor should we > when we find it relevant to an understanding of the MOQ. . > > Platt > > On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 11:20 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> [Horse] >>> [Ian] made some good points in your last couple of posts re: the >> >>> Left/Right situation on this list and I agree with you. >> >> >> >> . >> I also agree. >> Saying that someone labelled F has characteristic G, >> when there are many examples where they have not-G & >> there are many examples where non-F's also have G, >> is intellectually lazy & often intellectually dishonest. >> Craig Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
