dmb quoted Pirsig:
"We must understand that when a society undermines intellectual freedom for its
own purposes it is absolutely morally bad, but when it represses biological
freedom for its own purposes it is absolutely morally good.
Eddo Rats replied:
A view weeks ago i was trying to express my intellectual freedom here on my
findings about the relationship between SOM and MOQ on invitation of Ant. The
cause of my findings had to do with my experience with Mental illness in the
past and my training as a Elektronics Engineer. This MOQ forum is a kind of
society with its rules for its own purpose. I expected to be able to discuss
my findings on this MOQ forum free as in a free intellectual playground. In
reality I was, instead of having an intellectual discussion, almost only being
attacked on the fact that i am somebody with a mental illness history and for
that reason not to be taken seriously. What does the MOQ moral hierarcy have to
say about this situation?
dmb says:
Having the intellectual freedom to express your views does not mean that those
views are immune to criticism. Nobody is obliged to take you seriously. It's
all about the quality of the views in question, right? We'd all like to be
taken seriously but that is not a right. It's one of those things that has to
be earned, like trust and respect.
Please remember that your views struck me as "something a psychotic person
would say" even BEFORE you shared the fact that you have a history of mental
illness. This was no mere insult but, as it turns out, a reasonably accurate
characterization - or at least a very lucky guess. And the fact that I'm not
interested in such views is not a violation of your freedom but an exercise of
my own freedom.
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