{"id":87,"date":"2011-05-31T19:54:59","date_gmt":"2011-05-31T23:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/attheintersectionoffaithandculture\/?p=87"},"modified":"2011-05-31T19:54:59","modified_gmt":"2011-05-31T23:54:59","slug":"caution-misology-free-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/attheintersectionoffaithandculture\/2011\/05\/caution-misology-free-zone.html","title":{"rendered":"Caution: Misology-Free Zone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If, as the eighteenth century philosopher Immanuel Kant had noted, the hatred of reason is \u201cmisology,\u201d then he who is guilty of misology is a <em>misologist.\u00a0 <\/em>\u00a0While this <em>language <\/em>is no longer in vogue (if it ever was), there can be no question that the misologist remains as salient a figure in our day as he was in Kant\u2019s.\u00a0 Upon reading some of the comments made to my postings on this blog, anyone with any doubts on this score would have them decisively, irrevocably, put out to pasture.<\/p>\n<p>Due either to the lack of ability or will, some people are indisposed to reason.\u00a0 Argumentation gives way to misrepresentations and, especially, insults.\u00a0 Because, to my great shame, I am not above repaying harm with harm, I am going to remove the temptation to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow is the first day of a new month.\u00a0 Beginning tomorrow, I will not permit ad hominem attacks against either myself or any other contributor to the discussions that unfold on this blog.\u00a0 What this means is that in addition to banning ordinary apolitical insults\u2014\u201cidiot,\u201d \u201cmoron,\u201d etc.\u2014such choice terms of abuse as \u201cracism,\u201d \u201csexism,\u201d \u201chomophobia,\u201d \u201cfascist,\u201d \u201cNazi,\u201d \u201cIslamophobia,\u201d \u201canti-Semitism,\u201d and all such standard Politically Correct weapons of mass character destruction will also be proscribed.\u00a0 We can discuss these conversation-stoppers, these spoilers of the well of discourse; indeed I have every intention of so doing.\u00a0 But in the interest of clear thought and constructive and civil discourse, I will not allow them to any longer be enlisted in the service of intimidating and bullying those with whom the bullies\u2014i.e. the misologists\u2014disagree. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Those lacking in intellectual prowess will doubtless find this ban on name-calling intolerably restrictive.\u00a0 Fortunately, for their sakes, they are free to start their own blogs where misology can run wild. 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