RE: META: Banning Iraq discussion

From: Damien Broderick (thespike@earthlink.net)
Date: Tue Feb 18 2003 - 12:34:39 MST

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    In my view, a large part of the `Iraq' exchanges on the list are already
    meta: they are disputes about the kinds of evidence that one can bring to
    bear upon a real-world problem, the kinds of reasoning deployed, the success
    and failures of logic, analogy, metaphor, etc, the clouding or biasing of
    judgment driven by preconception, affiliation, narrow self-interest and
    mental/emotional legacy codes.

    Of course, attempts to engage in such meta discussions under the
    circumstances of a specific real-world problem are almost inevitably bound
    to go toxic. But if not then, when? If not us, who?

    Damien Broderick



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