From: Michael Hamilton (thethemichael@gmail.com)
Date: Fri Jul 01 2005 - 14:43:30 BST
Hi everyone,
Arlo said:
> I'm going to take a small point of contention here. While there are many on
> this list who, by recent posts, are interested in epistemological issues
> surrounding the MOQ, there are also those of use who are (speaking for
> myself, of course) interested also in a praxiological discussion
> (transformative practice rather than theory) relating to an adoption of MOQ
> views. Towards this end, sociological and even political issues are
> interesting.
All power to you, Arlo! I'm theoretically-minded, so it was inevitable
that I'd get a little hung up on questions surrounding the SOL, but I
totally support your efforts to apply the MOQ to current issues. The
MOQ is worse than useless if not used in a practical sense.
Arlo continued:
> The point of agreement made with Platt was expressed by most who took
> exception only to the derivative analysis of the decision. That is, if I
> posted that the court's decision was immoral, according to the MOQ, and
> what led to this decision was small children who watched Barney, you'd
> likely point out that while my evaluation of the ruling was correct, the
> analysis used was quite absurd.
Sure. It's not the disagreement and debate itself that I take issue
with. It's the smug, condescending impression that I perceived in Mark
Maxwell's and MSH's initial responses, which unsurprisingly caused
Platt to respond along the hackneyed and meaningless battle-lines I've
come to recognise. I completely accept the validity of the general
frustration with Platt, as expressed by MSH, but by tainting otherwise
excellent counter-arguments with condescension, you only perpetuate
the frustration.
Now, Mark Maxwell has since followed up with a really interesting,
thought-provoking post - one that Platt won't be able dismiss as empty
"Commie" rhetoric.
MSH stated elsewhere:
> Defending or ignoring repeated postings of opinion, when such
> opinions have been challenged yet remain unsupported, seriously
> erodes the integrity of this list.
I agree. I have no problem at all with the challenging of Platt's
views. But please remember that the *way* in which people are
challenged has as much impact on the course of the discussion as the
actual content of the challenge.
Regards,
Mike
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