Hi Bob, Horse and others...,
"What I do believe in is separating the achievments
of a person from his character"
Carmen: I second that motion.
Horse wrote:
> Hi there
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> On 24 May 99, at 19:23, Bob Wallace wrote:
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> > Gandhi? Guy who slept with young naked girls as an old man to prove how
> > 'pure' was? Was always interested in people's bowel movements? Whose
> > ideas led to the deaths of a million Hindus and Muslims? Gandhi was
> > close to insane. His persona was a myth. Almost pure propaganda.
>
> And who helped to free an entire sub-continent from the illegal and
> violent rule of the British Imperialists.
>
Carmen: Horse, allow me to stand up from my chair and give you an 'standing
ovation' for you 'right on target' answer.
> What do you believe in? Intellectuals who are so utterly and morally
> superior to everyone that they should have the right to use government
> coercion to make people do what intellectuals 'know' is right? Thomas
> Sowell refers to such people as 'the annointed' who are deluded with
> what Hayek called 'the fatal conceit.'
> Indeed a pure free market does not exist. And that's a shame.
And it never will. What I do believe in is separating the achievments
of a person from his character. History is littered with the good
achievments of people of dubious character. But that dubious
character is often the result of Dynamic social value. There is a very
nasty tendency in todays political arena to use mud-slinging instead
of argument. If you don't like a persons beliefs then attack him with
vitriol and slander. This, as far as I can see is Social Value
attempting to dominate Intellectual value. And funnily enough, seeing
as I believe the MOQ to be of high value, I see this as immoral.
Carmen: Not hitting under the belt allowed!. If we look close enough, alll of
us, without exemption have enough 'dirty laundry' to cover the whole planet.
And, where is the constructiviness on that? Let's keep it clean fellows.
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