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Re: intentionally distorting arguments



On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Ludwik Kowalski wrote:


Somebody must be right and somebody must be wrong but who am I to
decide?

This is the philosophy I have always followed in the past. I must be
insane to have nominated myself as "judge." On the other hand, if one
little kid is hitting another little kid on the head with a big rock,
*anyone* who realizes that this is "bad" can step in and stop it, whether
that person is an adult or just another kid.

I am not unbiased in this matter. I only became convinced to take some
kind of action because I think I can see my own bias clearly, and it is
not large enough to greatly affect me. I realize that I could be wrong,
and that a *truely* unbiased observer might see that uncontrolled
subconscious motivations are driving me, and they have caused me to blind
myself to them. I orient my life around anti-blindess, and around staring
directly at things within myself which I barely can stand to see. I don't
think I am biased, but my confidence level is only about 90%. :)

The fight is not between Mr. Denker and I. If it was, I certainly would
not be doing any of this, because it would become unmistakably motivated
by selfish issues. The fight is between Denker and Anderson/Eberhardt.

Therefor the question arises... has a relatively unbiased 3rd party (me)
already followed the message-threads and correctly perceived the problem?
I think yes, but I would *love* to find a way to duck out of this whole
mess and have a *totally* unbiased 3rd party be the "judge and jury."


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