I think the challenge here is that the comment is made as justification for the broader point of the article, which in context was (as addendum to your quote) “as an example of argument against post modernism”. Which I consider an argument as claim to its rightness, especially when framed in the context.
I am making the subtle point that the argument can’t be used to debunk a post-modernist philosophy because the data point he elected to use, was, for lack of better terms, consequentialist. Not morally justifying. To me, that’s like saying (and forgive me for the staunch metaphor): “I can make a pretty good case for arguing that squatting in your grandparents mansion is morally justified, because everyone on the block would choose to live in this mansion if they could”.
I would agree with you if he not had the prior qualifiers of it being an argument against the philosophy he considers me to have, from my earlier comment, and if in the article he didn’t equivocate all of this with goodness itself.
I think the challenge here is that the comment is made as justification for the broader point of the article, which in context was (as addendum to your quote) “as an example of argument against post modernism”. Which I consider an argument as claim to its rightness, especially when framed in the context.
I am making the subtle point that the argument can’t be used to debunk a post-modernist philosophy because the data point he elected to use, was, for lack of better terms, consequentialist. Not morally justifying. To me, that’s like saying (and forgive me for the staunch metaphor): “I can make a pretty good case for arguing that squatting in your grandparents mansion is morally justified, because everyone on the block would choose to live in this mansion if they could”.
I would agree with you if he not had the prior qualifiers of it being an argument against the philosophy he considers me to have, from my earlier comment, and if in the article he didn’t equivocate all of this with goodness itself.