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> My outrage isn't directed at your moral failings,which are unfortunately all too common, but at your intellectual failures. Would you care to enumerate the m
by RickHull 9y ago
> My outrage isn't directed at your moral failings,which are unfortunately all too common, but at your intellectual failures.
Would you care to enumerate the moral failings of mine which you have identified? Or is this just an indiscriminate attack?
> You are misrepresenting the status quo when you're insinuating that some "establishment" conspiracy will be suppressing the usefulness of violating fundamental rights, such as assumption of innocence, in their quest to defend "political correctness".
I have made no such statements nor insinuations. There is no conspiracy. If this is the only such intellectual failure of mine which you have (mis)identified, then I suggest you recalibrate your moral outrage meter and try a less scattershot approach to fighting ideas and messengers which make you uncomfortable.
As to the rest of your statements, I think I agree with them mostly. We should not violate fundamental rights including the presumption of innocence particularly. I agree with prohibitions on torture on moral grounds and not simply consequential grounds.
I have not missed the essential message of the Enlightenment and in fact uphold such ideals as a core part of my identity. So in summary, I reiterate my concern that your outrage is indiscriminate and scattershot, and you have misunderstood my position and statements.