tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26741618.post3712643625932272041..comments2024-02-28T02:22:20.886-08:00Comments on homunculus: Moving swiftly onPhilip Ballhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09986655706443117158noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26741618.post-50142902962922753342012-02-14T14:45:16.206-08:002012-02-14T14:45:16.206-08:00Don't worry Jim, it's OK to agree with me ...Don't worry Jim, it's OK to agree with me now and again - even when it means agreeing with something written in the Guardian. You'll get over it.Philip Ballhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09986655706443117158noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26741618.post-29381230150247850402012-02-13T07:28:53.789-08:002012-02-13T07:28:53.789-08:00At the risk of being a 'kiss of death', I ...At the risk of being a 'kiss of death', I agree with you.<br /><br />One fundamental problem, it seems to me, is that 'truth' and 'liberty' are being regarded as parallel rather than orthogonal, by the N.A..<br /><br />To be 'wrong' would be morally anathema to the parallelists, as it would contradict (anti-parallel) liberty. Whereas 'Old Atheists' would see the virtue of the orthogonality of truth and liberty, as allowing the 'right to be wrong', without any consequent moral catastrophe. Indeed, it is a prerequisite for discourse, and an axiom in Justice (the presumed innocence of the accused; and the immunity from prosecution for their advocates in light of their 'wrongness' after conviction).<br /><br />Since wrong doctrine does not contradict liberty, it must be the imposition of any doctrine that is anti-liberal; be it false or true.<br /><br />'The stalking horse': <i>"Richard Dawkins is right to worry that faith schools can potentially become training grounds for intolerance, and that daily indoctrination into a particular faith should have no place in education."</i><br /><br />And yet Dawkins, the probable Fabian, can see no problem with Marxist-Feminist policy in schools. How would he react to the news that about 1,000,000 boys each day in Britain, were being prescribed Ritalin in order to make them more compliant Catholics?<br /><br />There's no fool like a New Fabian.JimmyGirohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01548795180321590463noreply@blogger.com