Re: DISCUSSION/Iraq and domestic protest

["Troy Merrill" <troy1@moscow.com>]

Dale Courtner wrote:

Unless you would be willing to provide an answer to the question: by
what standard is *your* opinion better than the other side's opinion?

My reply: By the same standard as yours; it is the product of a system of
ethics and values.

Troy Merrill


----- Original Message -----
From: "Dale Courtney" <dmcourtn@moscow.com>
To: <vision2020@moscow.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 1:39 PM
Subject: RE: DISCUSSION/Iraq and domestic protest


> Melynda Huskey wrote:
> > > I, too, have a personal request:  let more people speak, rather than
> > > fewer--about the impending war, about our community, about
> > what we value,
> > > about ourselves and our experiences.
> > >
> > > This list exists precisely because we agree that other people *do*
> > > have
> > > ideas and points of view worth listening to, no matter how
> > distant they are
> > > from our own.
> > >
> > > Or am I making an unwarranted assumption?  Do we have that common
> > > understanding?
>
> Tom Hansen wrote:
> > I agree with Ms. Huskey 100%.
> >
> > Depriving people of their right to speak, merely shows your
> > fear of what they
> > have to say.
>
> I'm assuming that you both have college degrees (I know Tom does). Yet I
> think you didn't actually *read* what Douglas posted:
>
> > But in the meantime, I would like to come to my personal
> > request, addressed
> > to all ethical relativists who have posted to this list in the past,
> > whether opposed to the war or supportive of it. For the
> > duration of the
> > fighting, would you please withdraw from the public
> > discussion of the war.
> > I am not saying this to be rude -- it is just that the
> > relativist (on his
> > own terms) has nothing to contribute. I am reminded of the
> > joke about what
> > happens when you cross a JW with a Unitarian -- you get
> > someone who knocks
> > on your door for no particular reason. What do you get when you cross
> > ethical relativism with peace activism? Candle smoke.
>
> His point -- ethical relativists have *nothing* to add to the
> conversation. Since the warmonger's opinions are as equally valid as
> your own, it's just more white noise to filter.
>
> Unless you would be willing to provide an answer to the question: by
> what standard is *your* opinion better than the other side's opinion?
>
> Dale Courtney
> Moscow, Idaho
>
>