Re: Why real numbers and points can't model continuum

On Nov 27, 1:58 am, Marshall <marshall.spi...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Nov 26, 12:09 pm, mike3 <mike4...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Nov 26, 10:13 am, Marshall <marshall.spi...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Nov 25, 11:21 pm, Venkat Reddy <vred...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

That's most balanced response to my posts I have ever seen. Thanks.

We should not be surprised to see an ignoramus applaud a
proposal that all people are on equal intellectual footing.

Marshall

Acutally, what's more important is not "intellectual"
footing, what's more important is that people not be
_dis_respected.

I (respectfully!) disagree, mike. Not everyone is worthy of
respect.

But then that raies another question: can they *become* worthy
of respect if they want it? As if not, then that suggests you
would be attacking them for something they cannot help,
something beyond their control, and that's wrong for more
reasons than I can list.

I will disagree with those who defend the value
of willful ignorance,

You can disagree with someone's viewpoint, I never said that
was wrong.

and I will disrespect those who go
so far as to wear it like white pancake makeup, and those
who don the bright red bulb-nose and fright-wig of insisting
on the importance of their uninformed and uninformable intuitions.


No, the best thing to do is leave them alone. How is it morally
good to hurt someone else? If they do not wish to fill their
ignorance with knowledge, you *cannot* force them to. And
why do you have to? Nor does it make it right to make ill
of them. Besides, this is just math, I don't think that it
will kill millions of people just for some guy over there to
refuse to see how "real" math works.

What does it do for *you* to "disrespect" them? Also, what
harm would come from *not* "disrespecting" them? What harm
can come from simply leaving them in their error? People like
the ones that come here promoting their silly idea on
"infinitesimal b" or something do not have a lot of power.

If you "disrespect" someone else, then you are only propagating
more evil in the world. You then become part of the problems
with the world instead of their solutions. Hey! Even if
you have been wronged by someone (that's more than just them
wanting to persist with ignorance (which harms no one but
themselves), that's where they actually do something that
has a negative impact on you), that does not automatically
grant you the right to wrong them back. Revenge is absolutely
condemned, is not justice, and two wrongs do not equal a right.

The only reason I've debated as long as I have with this guy
is because it is fun. I can test out arguments, see how it
goes. When it wears on me too far, I'll just quit. This is
a newsgroup. I can just stop posting. But I will never, ever,
*hate* them or try to make ill of them. Once that happens,
I'd be no better, in fact perhaps even worse, than they are.
Peddling hate, no matter for what reason(*), only serves to
add to the pool of evil that is in the world.

(*) Especially for something as idle as a simple "crank"
peddling a silly dumb theory about math.
.

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