"uncompromising, single-minded"

[Curtis Clark]

At 20:21 2002.11.17, Ken Kinman wrote:
>     Strict cladism is seen by many as uncompromising, single-minded, and
>sometimes as being like an abusive spouse whose aggression just gets worse
>and worse over time.

On the one hand, you decry "strict cladism" for preferring classifications
that contain only monophyletic groups. On the other hand, when some
cladists want to go off and name clades independently of traditional
nomenclature (Phylocode), you castigate them bitterly and cite a (quite
convincing, IMO) paper by Norm Platnick that points out the value of naming
only clades within traditional nomenclature. And you present the "Kinman
System" as evidently the *only* solution to all these problems.

Who is being uncompromising here?


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