From: johnny moral (johnnymoral@hotmail.com)
Date: Tue Jun 01 2004 - 22:50:55 BST
How about reductio ad absurdum ad infinitum arguments that say that since I
stepped on an ant yesterday, then I'm like Hitler? Things don't have to be
reduced to the absurd, you know. Every argument could be, but that would be
absurd. There is such a thing as degrees and there are such things as
motives and justice to consider.
I shouldn't need to say that I'm not defending abuse or civilian casualties,
but I think I will anyway, before you reduce me to that position absurdly.
Johnny (a Chomsky fan, but he doesn't go nearly far enough - he's an
imperialism enabler if you ask me)
>From: "Mark Steven Heyman" <markheyman@infoproconsulting.com>
>Reply-To: moq_discuss@moq.org
>To: moq_discuss@moq.org
>Subject: Re: MD Noam Chomsky
>Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 11:01:18 -0700
>
>Platt,
>
>Yikes. Thanks for the restraint.
>
>You don't consider a reductio ad absurdum refutation to be valid?
>Pirsig does.
>
>Chomsky is saying that the argument "What I do is fine, as long as
>it's not the worse that's been done" leads to the absurd result that
>Saddam Hussein could justify his actions by claiming that at least he
>didn't kill six million jews, like Hitler.
>
>Now, go outside and play.
>
>MarkH
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