On Wednesday, June 19, 2002, at 09:41 AM, Bradford DeLong wrote:
>>
>> there may be some relative truth to be found in these matters, but when
>> it comes to some areas, like holocaust denial, communist genocide, etc,
>> there is little hope for clear thinking and only various and sundry
>> forms of bigotry and narrow mindedness that is far more religious and
>> superstitious than scientific...
>
> Another good brain destroyed by postmodern relativism...
>
actually, i think it's more cynicism than "postmodern relativism" (i've never understood exactly what that is, anyway, speaking of straw men)--the flip side of wojtek's "a plague on both your houses" view, which he attributes to misanthropy. ;-)
it's either cynicism or laziness, imo, and in the spirit of giving people the benefit of the doubt, i'll imagine the former rather than the latter . . .
j