Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I made a mistake last Friday — I thought to introduce conflicting viewpoints to demonstrate that one can, intellectually, appreciate more than one viewpoint on an issue. This was a mistake because there are some issues that one cannot discuss from the detached, bloodless core that exists at the root […]
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The end of speaking
I was out of town but had to return early. This morning I received an email from Mike Sanders asking me to remove his weblog link from my blogroll and he has removed my weblog from his. The reason is because of my “moral equivalency” arguments last week, and because I linked to Daniel Ord’s piece Stereopticon in Friday’s […]
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Pride of acquaintanceship
I wanted to point out a wonderful cross-blog between Mike Golby and Jonathon Delacour. Mike is starting a series of weblog postings on how he has re-affirmed his own religious beliefs, as well as gained appreciation for others. This is in response to a posting Jonathon did on his loss of faith. In his posting, Mike said: That […]
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Moral Equivalency
Meryl and Mike Golby are both giving their opinions based on this term “moral equivalency”. Since neither is referencing my weblog, I am assuming that this effort on both their parts is related to something else other than my posts of this morning. Update: I hadn’t planned on pursuing this issue because “moral equivalency” is a lose/lose situation […]
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Another weblog delinked
Update Steve Himmer also also had his weblog link pulled from Mike Sander’s weblog. Steve, being more reasonable than I (or less pissed, or less sick), has provided an excellent response to Mike’s posting today. I was surprised when I saw that Steve’s link was pulled (well, I was surprised when I got my email about my link being pulled). […]