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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread

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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (35373)8/8/2012 12:33:33 PM
From: average joe  Read Replies (2) of 36921
 
I've noticed a very interesting phenomena here on SI and I expect it might be everywhere on earth. Someone makes a query in this case you to someone else in this case Koan to qualify a statement and it turns out they are not expressing anything they have investigated on their own only what they've been told.

The thread of posts starts here:

Message 25645580

I mistake nothing! Peopel that would try and convince me simple right is wrong, and wrnog is right, disgust me.
MQ responds:

I guess that means you find me disgusting since you think I'm wrong and I dared to try to persuade you towards what's really right. It's good that you mistake nothing. <I mistake nothing! Peopel that would try and convince me simple right is wrong, and wrnog is right, disgust me. >

What's good is you don't even have to worry about karma ... I don't get feelings of disgust about you just because you try to convince me your wrong ideas are right, even though you will cause mass death. I don't think you are wrong in a malevolent sense. The deaths you cause would be innocent mistakes.

You can feel disgust for me, cost-free!!

Wharfie no doubt doesn't even bother with feelings of disgust I'm so far beneath his mighty intellect, sagacity and wondrously deep humanity.
Koan directs his disgust at Ayn Rand.

Ayn Rand's greed is good are the rantings of a sociopathic personality. And there is no defense of it.
MQ graciously goes on to respond.

That definition certainly does NOT apply to Ayn but does seem to apply to your writing. What definition were you using? What is it about what she has written that gets you so worked up?

Koan realizing he is caught makes a feeble attempt at a defense.

Go here as there are lots of interviews.

youtube.com

MQ counters as any reasonable person would.

Have you watched and listened to any of them? Or do you know what to think without information?

I'm curious about how you draw you drew your conclusions about her. I watched one just now and she's impressive, not sociopathic.

You should be able to come up with something which makes me think: "Oh yes, I see what you are thinking Koan" rather than "Koan is ...." as I'm currently thinking.

Mqurice
Professor Koan seeing he is beat once again makes feeble attempt to change the subject.

Maurice, you and I see a much different world and use different logic systems, so it is hard for us to communicate.

I will make the effort, but we both need to stick our egos in our back pockets.

As always MQ counters honestly and reasonably.

I don't see why you need to pretend you don't have an ego. Just quote the things [ego irrelevant] which make you think what you say about Ayn. It's unpersuasive to simply make an assertion and refuse to provide some information. That approach makes your argument's worth nothing.

Same with Milton Friedman.

Mqurice

Koan beaten and broken by so many able jabs slinks off with:

OK.
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