Craig, thanks for the assist! About murder I would just add, dmb, that it was my point that the argument in support of the murder I highlighted was an intelligent argument. If might not be very intelligent, but it was in the level of intelligence none-the-less? My point is, how is intelligence judged? What makes intelligence intelligence? How can one assign any qualitative (or quantitative) distinction to any intelligent proposition? PErhaps we need a new word, but I have been recycling 'objective'.
Tim On Wed, 3 Nov 2010 19:41:44 +0000 (UTC), [email protected] said: > [dmb] > > Totalitarian ideology...[is] intellectual? > > . > Yes, of course, hence the term "ideology". For most of human history > the (non-intellectual) operative slogan was "Might makes right". > From Marx to Mao, totalitarians have operated under the principle > "We know what's right, you better comply". Some want to reject > totalitarianism because it's a social pattern. Fortunately, it takes > reason to distinguish high- from low-quality ideologies, > as we saw in the U. S. on Tuesday. > 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 -- [email protected] -- http://www.fastmail.fm - One of many happy users: http://www.fastmail.fm/docs/quotes.html 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
