From: Charles Hixson (charleshixsn@earthlink.net)
Date: Mon Oct 28 2002 - 18:54:00 MST
On Monday 28 October 2002 14:28, Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
> > ...If you replaced the word "socialists" with "women" or "blacks"
> > in any one of your postings on the subject they'd be offensive;
> > I don't see why you should get off the hook just for picking on a
> > group that isn't flavour of the month among libertarian extropians.
>
> The flaw in this argument should be pretty obvious: one does not
> /choose/ to be black or female. One /does/ choose to support
> socialism, and to a lesser extent, one's religion (though there's
> a lot of parental/cultural influence there). It is just and right
> to hold people accountable for their freely-made choices. They are,
> in fact, the only thing you /can/ rightly judge someone's
> character by.
That may be a weakness in the analogy, but I don't see it as a flaw in an
argument. No argument was being made. What was being made was a statement
of intent.
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