Case, Horse, Point made.
Platt is indeed, and has been for many years, a useful "test case" for much debate. The only one in captivity my old boss would say. A while ago I suggested it was no coincidence "Platt Holden" was "The Old Plant" set up to entirely (by who knows whom ?) to poke contrarily into our fragile thoughts - I find it hard to otherwise rationalise the existence of such a twisted mind on the planet. That said, Horse, I do believe Platt needs the occasional "censuring" for the low quality inhuman words he expresses - just to make him stop and think at the response - by social control - since dialectic is such a limited tool in the long run. The Catch-22 of enlightened thinking - there are no watertight arguments, only koans - what Platt calls disparagingly "turn the other cheek". Let the fun continue, but don't let Platt forget the fire he is playing with. Letting him know you have the power of censorship, is not the same as wielding such power (water off a duck's back to Platt I know). As Groucho said, we don't want to become members of a club that would have us as members - a club that wields the social power that it has the right to wield. Ian On 4/6/07, Horse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Case > > I think I can safely say I agree with every word you've just written. > Like you, I often disagree with Platt but I don't have a problem with > that and, I believe, neither does Platt. I don't really think Ian's > being serious anyway. > Ban Platt? Nah - all the fun would go out out of the list. > > Horse > 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.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
