Andrew Haines on using Ockhams Razor as an Axe :
I am sick of hearing about Ockhams Razor. Not because I think its an unimportant thing to understand, mind you, but rather because it has been almost universally misunderstood and so is almost always misapplied. One example is the contemporary trend of reducing moral values to the inclinations present in individual experiencea modern lex parsimoniae with severe, rationalistic consequences.