To: Greg or e who wrote (28251 ) 3/10/2010 1:22:08 PM From: Solon 1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) | Respond to "You clip my statement so as to change the context, equivocate on the word "conform" and then call me a liar for supposedly accusing you of that which you dishonestly equivocated. "Denouncing and calling someone evil (as both you and Rand have done) because they do not conform to your arbitrarily derived moral construct is to use force "Some follow this God literally, and use him to determine and to justify their own actions. Thus, we see His most ardent followers displaying intolerance, hate, jealousy, spitefulness, insecurity, and other attributes of evil and of weakness. "not at all like saying that people are evil because they fail to conform to your (my) arbitrarily derived moral construct. First of all, I do not have an "arbitrarily derived moral construct", and secondly--the reason I denoted certain attributes as "evil" had nothing to do with conformity. I named them evil because it is generally accepted that hate and jealousy and so forth are not good qualities. If you were sincerely puzzled then you have been corrected many times since your pretense, haven't you?? I have said repeatedly thast I do not consider anyone as evil simply because they do not conform to my moral values. So that leaves only one conclusion, doesn't it?? You are being an as-hole--and you know it full well! "What irrational urge prevents you from being an Objectivist? "There is nothing irrational about choosing to avoid being labeled. Small minded and ignorant people tend to take labels as complete truths even thought they are only words, and such people often become more revolting and obnoxious than they were before. For such irrelevant and mindless people a label is a weapon or a smoke screen they can use to obscure the discussion and the sincere search for meaning and truth that mature people enjoy to share.
