Horse spoke:
> The character of the person is irrelevant to the argument.
Pirsig put it in a wonderful way (I paraphrase):
"The greatest fool in the world can say the sun is shining, but that doesn't
make it dark out."
I have always been astounded at how many people don't get this. Horse's
reduction is much more intelligible. In terms of the MoQ, one might say that
the intellectual value of a statement does not depend on the social value of
that statement, or on the social value of the one who states it.
But should the overall value of the statement depend on more than its
intellectual value exclusively? Seems to me it should.
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