Gary Childress wrote: ↑Sun Jan 29, 2023 6:09 pmHarbal seems like a good person to me. He doesn't cause much in the way of real harm to anyone that I see and gets along reasonably well with most people here in the philosophy forum. He has a playful wit about him and he has a sense of humility. If that is the outcome of "unscrupulous sexuality" then perhaps it should be encouraged.
The category ‘good person’ means little when discussing ideas. Hitler loved Eva and was very kind and loving to his dogs. Did you know that
Uncle Tom’s Cabin was a favorite title of his?
I would suggest you are taking a sentimental tack. This is common today. It is (hi there Immanuel) kind of ad hominem
backwards.
What do you mean by ‘real harm’? I can think many different attitudes or actions that are acceptable ethically in our present but that have tangible harmful results. What is your standard of measure? How do you decide? What structure of view do you have.
Reading what you write you seem to favor the utterly anodyne. Am I wrong? Let me know and I’ll correct my view.
We are involved in Cultural Wars. We are in the midst of them. They are real and they are consequential. All decisions, and most ethical ones, involve the imposition of value-stances. The place this starts is in the idea realm.
Unscrupulous sexual expression must be defined reasonably. I think it can be done. But it does require decisiveness, not the lack thereof.
Harbal either assumes the rôle of moron for some silly purpose or he really is a man concerned for nothing at all. A blank man. A lowest common denominator let loose.
My criticism of him is sadistically playful. Pay me back in kind. I admire wit. I have contempt for spineless brutal insults. You’ve got to do it with class IMO.
You might get along with him if you would stop trying to insult him for a change. Heck, you might get along with most here if you didn't try to lord yourself over everyone else as some kind of superior intellect. Has it ever occurred to you that all this knowledge you claim to possess may perhaps be of no more use than anyone else's knowledge?
There is nothing to get along
with. My purposes involve cultural critique and idea warfare.
Also I am not merely insulting him. I direct my insults at US. We are all outcomes of degenerate processes. How many times must I repeat this?!?
I want you to lord it over
me intellectually. Prove me wrong. Show me where and why I am wrong. Make it plain, right here in the presence of your peers.
Superior intellect? That is not the issue. The issue is familiarity with contemporary affairs. And that is got through wide reading.
You assholes read NOTHING. Except Immanuel who has read
badly.
Really Gary — am I less than extremely wonderful? A gift
to the thread? Why am I not recognized for the amazing contributor I am convinced that I am?!? What is this defect in your
seeing?