Dr. P. is the Lord’s servant. To me, that lets him off the hook regarding all of us. (And the sword is two-edged. It points in both directions.) If Dr. P is indeed another man’s servant, then he is totally outside my domain of demands or expectations. Premised on the reality of his being another man’s servant, it really, when you get right down to the visceral level, should not concern me in the least whether or not the man perhaps embellishes his scholarship. The matter is moot. We’re full circle: the man is another man’s servant. His conduct, character, and courtesies (or lack) is his Master’s domain of concern. Not mine.
I am simply to enjoy him.
I have not the privilege of asking for his accountability regarding his potential rightness or wrongness – whether in small things or large; I.e., academic honesty, or lying about his love for donuts. In Missouri terms, you have no right to chew or bite his ass. Only his Master can take him out behind the woodshed.
Lynn
What? Talk about giving someone a license to do anything. The whole point of academic oversight and peer review and so forth is to HOLD PEOPLE ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEIR ACTIONS!
And you're assuming there actually is a Master to take someone behind the woodshed.
Jeffrey Dahmer found God too. :rolleyes:
"Whatever appears to be against the Book of Mormon is going to be overturned at some time in the future. So we can be pretty open minded."-charity 3/7/07
My point was: responding on the level of the visceral, I believe, supersedes and Trump's most other concerns. Not that academic accountability is a waste of time. That's not my point.
I'm saying--a hundred years from now none of us will care about this discussion!
From a visceral perspective, perhaps your going at it with one another is not that important. To use a simplistic example: when all of us are walking down the celestial glory trail on the other side, kicking the eternal rocks in the road, chatting, I can easily picture us saying to one another, "...Remember when we were chewing out one another's butts?...Hardly seems relevant at all here?!"