Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!texbell!ficc!karl From: karl@ficc.uu.net (Karl Lehenbauer) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: SCI.PHILOSOPHY.OBJECTIVISM Keywords: sci.philosophy.objectivism, Objectivism, science Message-ID: Date: 2 Feb 90 19:33:02 GMT References: <7363@tank.uchicago.edu> Reply-To: karl@ficc.uu.net (Karl Lehenbauer) Organization: Ferranti International Controls Lines: 26 In article <7363@tank.uchicago.edu> rwt1@tank.uchicago.edu (Robert Tracinski) writes: >The response has been almost exclusively from those who get a power trip out of >flaming people, or who derive some juvenile pleasure from using dirty words in >public, or who apparently have nothing better to do than spend all day making >snide comments. ...and... >The discussion is so intellectually one-sided that it is completely un- >productive. We have made convincing arguments and have received no substantive >intellectual opposition. Among the people arguing in favor of talk.philosophy.objectivism, whom you so denigrate, are some of the most widely respected people on the net. You may have, in your opinion, received no substantive intellectual opposition. However, you have received *substantial* opposition. I will go out on a limb here and predict that you who are pushing for sci.philosophy.objectivism are going to have a hard row to hoe. And I doubt that the imperative, dismissive nature of your rhetoric is helping to win you the friends you're going to need to carry an SPO vote. Labelling opposing opinions insubstantive by fiat and personally attacking those that hold them is not science. Your remarks and those by David Bombardier and others provide the best arguments yet for the group to be called TPO. -- -- uunet!ficc!karl "...as long as there is a Legion of super-Heroes, uunet!sugar!karl all else can surely be made right." -- Sensor Girl