From: gts (gts_2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri May 09 2003 - 10:15:48 MDT
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:
> Perhaps, of course, you feel that the undesirability of spitting on
> sidewalks has not been established to your liking. But it
> may have been established to his, and the audience's, liking.
Yes, this goes back to my original argument to John about a month ago in
which I stated that we can call a Nazi "scum" without drawing much
objection. I wrote that we can do without drawing objection because there
are already many widely-accepted valid logical arguments in the public
domain that discredit Nazism as immoral.
However the fact that most third-parties to the dialogue would not voice
their objections to the name-calling is not evidence that the name-calling
is not ad hominem. Rather, it is evidence of intellectual dishonesty on the
part of those third-party participants. With respect to logical discourse,
even devil-worshippers deserve a fair trial.
-gts
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