From: Petter Wingren-Rasmussen (petterwr@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Feb 17 2009 - 04:53:17 MST
On 2/16/09, Johnicholas Hines <johnicholas.hines@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The analogy seems obvious, but why should anyone care? I was trying to
> convince people that using moral arguments (normative speech) in a
> community is a perfectly reasonable (rational) thing to do, if the
> community has some shared values that the argument can be based on.
I think you just found the core of our disagreement regarding the use of
normative language.
If the community has some shared values that the argument is based on I have
no objections whatsoever to normative language.
Thanks!
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