A Conversation on the Way to the Philosophy Department

Bill Ramey posts an interesting conversation that took place while walking to the philosophy department.  Just read it.

“Bush is Hitler: A Platonic Dialgoue"

Via Billy Beck.

Posted by on 11/01 at 04:43 AM

  1. Bush is Hitler and Kerry is Ghengis Khan!

    Thank the Goddess you aren’t voting for either of these crooks, because one is just as bad (equal) to the other.

    Right Mr. Venlet?

    Posted by  on  11/01  at  10:35 AM

  2. I think it is time for you to go into hibernation, Serpent.

    Posted by  on  11/01  at  11:02 AM

  3. I read the dialogue and hope it isn’t a Just So story.  You know, what Socrates wished he had said after everyone left the grove.

    Posted by gary  on  11/01  at  11:18 AM

  4. Sleep is definitely coming …

    But while we are waiting, I thought you would once again attempt to explain why You are not voting for George Bush?

    The reason (as I understand it) has to do with the fact that (ultimately) Bush is no better than Kerry (according to you). They are both crooks, each scheming to steal your precious matter.

    So why bother singling out Kerry for ridicule and scorn? Bush is just as much a crook; one’s no better than the other. Yet recently you seem to be contradicting yourself on this very point (over and over). I find myself wondering why … ?

    Posted by  on  11/01  at  12:15 PM

  5. It was meant to be a “Platonic dialogue” in the sense that the arguments are real but the setting is fictive. Bill is too smart and too shy to waste his time with these jokers for real. 

    Posted by Ernest Brown  on  11/01  at  03:57 PM

  6. Hey, Serps, the mistaken premise of voting is that one is obligated to respect the result regardless of reason or morality no matter who wins.

    The German elections of 1932 ultimately cashed out as being a referendum on the right of Anne Frank to exist.

    No one has the right to respect such a “process,” no matter “the lesser of two evils.”

    Posted by Ernest Brown  on  11/01  at  04:00 PM

  7. Thanks for the clarification, Ernest.  Though a “Platonic dialogue,” the words utilized are words which have been heard in reality.

    Posted by  on  11/01  at  04:33 PM

  8. But respect or not, are you not affected by the outcome? Iw ould think there would be some serious self-interest at work.

    Posted by bithead  on  11/02  at  08:05 AM

  9. Ernest Brown: the mistaken premise of voting is that one is obligated to respect the result regardless of reason or morality no matter who wins.

    Suppose that I come around a corner, and observe a woman being raped.

    I can either continue on my way (maybe its not my business?), or I can intervene.

    Of course if I intervene I am “obligated” to respect the resulting outcome regardless of reason or morality (Fate/Destiny) no matter who wins.

    Yeah … come to think of it … all parties concerned are probably better off if I just keep on walking.

    Ernest Brown: The German elections of 1932 ultimately cashed out as being a referendum on the right of Anne Frank to exist.

    So you mean (assuming I was voting age in 1940’s Germany) even if I had opposed Hitler and voted against him, that would still make me a fanatical Nazi and Jew-killer afterwards?

    Ernest Brown: No one has the right to respect such a “process,” no matter “the lesser of two evils.”

    In my experience a man unwilling to make a symbolic gesture (against evil) is highly unlikely to make any gesture (against evil) at all.

    Posted by  on  11/05  at  11:10 AM

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