From: Mark Steven Heyman (markheyman@infoproconsulting.com)
Date: Tue Jun 01 2004 - 23:59:18 BST
On 1 Jun 2004 at 21:50, johnny moral wrote:
How about reductio ad absurdum ad infinitum arguments that say that
since I stepped on an ant yesterday, then I'm like Hitler?
msh says:
Hi Mr. "Moral." Thanks for the clever feedback. Could you fill that
argument in for me? Or is it just self-referential absurdity, for
the fun of it?
Also, I'd be interested to hear how Chomsky enables imperialism.
That, at least, would be a different attack on him.
Thanks for the giggles,
Mark Heyman
>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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