(March 15, 2013 at 11:06 am)jstrodel Wrote: Your attitude is evidence for my personal belief that society should try and teach virtue. This is really sort of boring though. Do you have an argument, or just a lot of name calling?
If you want to see where I am on the left-right spectrum, it is sort of like Alaisdair MacIntyre reading Milton Friedman. But you don't know who those people are, you just know that I'm an idiot because you don't understand my position.
What objective "virtue" are you spouting off about suddenly? What virtue is 100% objectively applicable to everyone? Does it include bowing on your knees before God? If so then it's not very objective because I object to it, and therefore your personal beliefs are worthless on this point. And that WAS an argument; it was an argument that what you are spouting is a loud of crap. MacIntyre reading Friedman? Are you fucking HIGH? Neither of those two guys' views ever were compatible and they still aren't. Stop trying to square the circle; you just have no fucking clue where your compass is actually pointing, so you just start pointing in random directions, spouting whatever word comes to mind when you do, in the hopes of sounding intelligent and finally giving some credibility to your stances and positions, except it's failing horribly and doing the complete opposite. You cannot say "I am pro freedom," and then immediately follow with "Mandatory religious education." So you're pro freedom except for the freedom to choose, huh? Clever of you to circumvent it by "education," thus ensuring that you can get to brainwash the children as early as possible. I'm onto your bullshit.
You also cannot say that you are libertarian in economic views, and then say you're also socialist in economic views. These are two COMPLETELY clashing ideologies that are not compatible with each other in the real world at ALL.
Also your little quip about how I probably don't know who fucking Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre is is fucking insulting and presumptuous as shit. He was a weak-willed man who had to struggle with what is now out-of-date information and was convinced of divinity by Augustine, a man renowned for saying shit like this:
Quote:"The good Christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell."
"All diseases of Christians are to be ascribed to demons; chiefly do they torment freshly-baptized Christians, yea, even the guiltless new-born infants."
"Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations."
"Women should not be enlightened or educated in any way. They should, in fact, be segregated as they are the cause
of hideous and involuntary erections in holy men."
"It is impossible that there should be inhabitants on the opposite side of the Earth, since no such race is recorded by Scripture among the descendants of Adam."
Hey, he sounds like someone YOU venerate!
