[Buddha-l] Non attached & mindful culinary triumphalism?

[Geoff Zinderdine]

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> On Jul 12, 2011, at 07:24 , Richard Hayes wrote:
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> > On Jul 11, 2011, at 23:07, "Dan Lusthaus" <vasubandhu at earthlink.net>
> wrote:
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> >> There's a difference between diagnostics and labeling. Issue would be
> >> whether the description is accurate, or ridiculing it is a way of
> blunting
> >> its accuracy.
> >
> > Exactly.
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> There is, incidentally, no accuracy at all in the label "narcissistic" when
> applied wholesale to people who subscribe to any particular approach to
> meta-ethics. "Narcissist" is a psychological term and is probably best
> applied by a trained analyst after considerable exposure to the analysand to
> whom it is applied. It isn't something to be thrown around lightly, lest it
> be construed as a form of ridicule that has the effect, as Dan puts it so
> well, of blunting accuracy.


Is that necessarily true when ridiculing "lightweights" on an academic
forum?  I would think that the accuracy is less important than the sheer
blunt force trauma of the bludgeon.  Just to clarify.

Geoff