Hello Christopher,
BCS wrote:
Hello Walter,
Consider the Bible. It's long and complicated, and by careful
examination of it you can find a verse here and there to justify
*any* behavior.
This is true of any long document if you are willing to string
together enough quotes and ignore enough of it. I'd bet you could get
the Declaration of Intendance out of Playboy if you wanted to.
What is this Declaration of Intendance you speak of?
OK so I use spell check as a crutch (and I was trying to pay attention to
a lecture when I typed that).
As for ignoring context...well, I'm willing to discuss this, but not
here.
Note: I'm not claiming that some document is saying anything, but, that with
enough cut and paste, any long enough document can be made to say anything
you want and that sometimes this requiters that you ignore context. The implication
is that a selected set of excerpts from some document can't be taken as proof
that the document says or doesn't say anything.
