Good idea. I like a good discussion with someone with a different opinion, but so far what we've seen on the Randian side has mainly been silly name calling and arguments from intimidation/authority/fame, like: Rand is more famous than you are, so who are you to criticize her? Well, Kant and Marx are much more famous than Rand, so their arguments must be much better still... We'd better keep this place clean from inane name calling and "my philosopher beats your philosopher" arguments, perhaps we might then draw some people with more intelligent criticisms.
There seemed to be someone - I suspect I know who it is - posting under multiple names from the same IP address. Not difficult to spot such sad cases, fortunately. I love technology!
Good idea. I like a good discussion with someone with a different opinion, but so far what we've seen on the Randian side has mainly been silly name calling and arguments from intimidation/authority/fame, like: Rand is more famous than you are, so who are you to criticize her? Well, Kant and Marx are much more famous than Rand, so their arguments must be much better still... We'd better keep this place clean from inane name calling and "my philosopher beats your philosopher" arguments, perhaps we might then draw some people with more intelligent criticisms.
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ReplyDeleteThere seemed to be someone - I suspect I know who it is - posting under multiple names from the same IP address. Not difficult to spot such sad cases, fortunately. I love technology!
That doesn't surprise me, I found the style of some of the contributors already suspiciously similar...
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ReplyDelete>...I found the style of some of the contributors already suspiciously similar...
Yes, there was that too...;-)