Re: An Exchange With USACycling

RicodJour wrote:
> I think you're being unduly harsh on Laffatme. Hypocrisy can have a
> couple of definitions:
> 1. The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one
> does not hold or possess; falseness.
> 2. An act or instance of such falseness.
>
> There is no doubt that he really believes the stuff he spouts. In
> other posts I referred to his inability to see his own bias as a blind
> spot, and thus dubbed him Blind Spot. Just as you would not think
> about pointing out a handicapped person's shortcomings, you should feel
> pity for someone's self-imposed mental handicaps and make allowances.
> Now if we can only get some funding for him or have a telethon on his
> behalf, there will be some hope for a cure. Until then, pat him on the
> head and send him on his way.
>
> R

Read the Buddha quote Lafferty supplied again. Now read your definition
again. Think about it for a while.

I don't doubt that Lafferty believes the stuff he spouts. In fact, it's
pretty obvious he believes it to the exclusion of all else. No matter
what happens in this case, even if it was proved that L'Equipe
orchestrated the whole thing and framed LANCE (not that I think this is
likely), Lafferty's version of the "truth" is immutable and impervious
to external influences. Which is what makes it especially ludicrous
when he delivers high-handed sermons about "searching for the truth"
and quotes the Buddha like he is some kind of serene, disinterested zen
master. If this isn't a textbook example of hypocrisy, I don't know
what is.

-Smurf

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