Hey Platt...
> PLATT:
> This is where your position falls off a cliff.
rick: How would you know what my position does??? You completely ignore my
argument and simply restate your own. Is this really the best you can do???
PLATT:
The MOQ's canon against
> subordinating truth to social values erects a solid moral wall against
> tyrants who alter truth for the very reason you cite--because it "would be
> best for society."
rick: Yes... the MOQ does say something like this... But that canon is
completely irrelevant to this conflict. One need not turn to the MOQ to see
how ridiculous the position you've put forth is....
Did you know that the figures in the statue will stand over 12 feet
tall??? This is so it is easier for soicety to view from great distances.
Clearly this disturbes you as the actual firefighters we're all considerably
shorter than this... and subordiniting 'historical accurcay' to social need
in this way is repugnant to the MOQ... right? And did you know that even
before the decision was made to change the races of the men, the decision
was made to use MODELS instead of the actual men in the photo. Surely you'd
have been just as peeved if the 3 white firefighters had been repleaced by 3
white models??? Right??? Because 3 white models is just as 'historically
inaccurate' as 3 multi-racial models... no matter how you slice it, it would
have been different guys.
But moreover, you've completely missed the fact that the memorial IS, in
fact, quite historically accurate. In fact, it MORE accurately portrays the
racial composition of the men it was built to commemorate than Franklyn's
photo does. Keep in mind, the statue is NOT a commemoration of the event in
the photo, rather, it is a sommemoration of the men who dies, that was
INSPIRED by the photo. Like I said, you're judging the accuracy against the
wrong history.
And if all that doesn't do it for you. Than don't argue with me...
argue with Robert Maynard Pirsig... an author who is quite confident that
"Authenticity isn't necessarily Quality." (Letter from R.Pirsig to R.Redford
as published in the Guidebook to ZMM, p.236).
nuff said,
rick
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