@spendius,
spendius requested:Quote:Imagine saying "Media are corrupt." It's ridiculous.
By what reasoning
is saying "Media are corrupt" subject to ridicule ?
spendius wrote:Quote:I think Dave has a bit of a thing about breaking rules.
Only little ones mind you. Nothing to justify getting a posse up.
This is perceptual error.
1. As to
ignoring rules:
From the earliest years of my life,
the single digit years thereof,
I ignored rules that other kids obayed without question.
I remember receiving lists of instructions of what to do,
and in what sequence, from school teachers.
I followed those rules which I deemed logical and well founded
and silently ignored the others; I dismissed them out of hand.
When asked the reason
that I ignored them, I explained.
No big deal; I am and I was a libertarian and a hedonist.
I
never assumed that anyone else had jurisdiction to order me around.
I believed in government by consent of the governed.
I carefully pondered when to consent.
2. As to
implimenting rules:
We shoud be mindful of the fact
that we have risen to the top of the food chain
and walked upon the Moon by the application of
competent reasoning.
We owe it to ourselves to act to think and speak logically,
and to execute our thawts with flawless logic,
in order to bring about success in our endeavors.
Most of the time, infractions of grammar entail flaws of logic,
e.g. inconsistency as to number concerning the sublect of a sentence,
such as there 's 3 dogs barking instead of there
r 3 dogs barking,
or some
one will do something for
themselves.
Them is a plural word; selves is a plural word.
We r free to ignore rules which r not founded upon logic,
e.g. the non-fonetic parts of English spelling,
or the rule of grammar against splitting of infinitive verbs,
which r founded upon stupidity.
Some rules r helpful to execute; not others.
In the deathless words of my ex-girlfriend, Marilyn:
"take the best and leave the rest."
She is an eclecticist -- not an ecdysiast.
It behooves us to master logic n to execute it proficiently
thereby to improve our prospects of controlling our environment to our satisfaction.
David
