RE: MD How do conservative values support DQ and the evolution of SQ?

From: Mark Steven Heyman (markheyman@infoproconsulting.com)
Date: Sat Aug 20 2005 - 13:30:02 BST

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    Hi all,

    On 20 Aug 2005 at 0:19, Mati Palm-Leis wrote:

    "Intellectual guidance" is a strange word but I will work with it and
    suggest that it means using reason to guide ones decisions. I would suspect
    that either side would and could claim to provide thee intellectual
    guidance. For one party to claim sole possession of Intellectual guidance
    would be like Conservatives claiming God is Republican. (I haven't found
    that verse in the bible yet. :-)) I would have to side with Platt that
    neither side can claim to be sole possessor of "Intellectual guidance".

    msh:
    Neither side has claimed sole possession of intellectual guidance.
    This is a straw man stuffed by Platt.

    One's ideas, right or left or in between, are intellectually valid if
    they can be supported by argument and evidence and, here, with the
    principles of the MOQ. If someone refuses to engage in honest
    discussion by evading or distorting questions asked of him, yet
    continues to spout his disputed ideas as if they were categorically
    correct, then he is relinquishing the right to claim the intellectual
    high ground.

    Please examine the recent Moral Society thread to see a clear example
    of what I mean.

    In a recent post, Platt said he leaves his mind open to the
    possibility that both he, on the right, and his antagonists on the
    left, might be wrong. What about the possibility that his
    antagonists are right, and he is wrong? There doesn't seem to be any
    room for that option, as anyone who carefully reads the thread
    mentioned above will see.

    Mark Steven Heyman (msh)
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