From: BillR54619-AT-aol.com
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 00:23:54 EDT
Subject: Re: PKF: for and against


In a message dated 10/7/2001 5:29:18 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
adams-AT-anarki.dk writes:

>> Who would bother to argue about Israel and Palestine, Ireland and Britain, 
if he >> did not believe the view he was taking might possibly be correct? 
 
> I would if I thought I might learn something by arguing that perspective :)

With appropriate allowance for uncertainties of fact, no honest person simply 
makes a weaker argument for the sake of dialectic, or dialogue alone. 
Dialectic can clarify questions of value, but there are some questions whose 
answer is too obvious to argue. This is the philosophical mistake that 
Chomsky and other value relativists of his ilk have made consistently in our 
time. History itself has proved them wrong, and continues to do so. Nothing 
is so fallible as a bad conscience.

Bill R. 
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