From: Brian D Williams (talon57@well.com)
Date: Wed Aug 14 2002 - 15:11:18 MDT
>From: Harvey Newstrom <mail@HarveyNewstrom.com>
>>On Wednesday, August 14, 2002, at 03:46 pm, Brian D Williams
>>wrote:
>> Okay, I confess, I was being deliberately provocative in my
>> response. It's pretty clear you saw right through it. You were
>> supposed to wait awhile until everybody had finished screaming
>>at me though. ;)
>Well please don't do this again. This is known as being a troll.
>You deliberately throw out a position that you don't hold to get
>a response from the group. It is dishonest and disruptive. It
>should be against the list rules if it isn't already.
Note to List Administrator, point of personnal privilege.
But Ad hominem attacks like the ones launched earlier today are
okay?
No, it wasn't a joke, I took a deliberate extreme position to
foster debate, I was playing Devils advocate. This is an excepted
and even cherished tactic in debating and philosophy circles, or at
least it was when I was in college.
>It also is just plain rude to waste my time responding to such
>garbage only to have you laugh and say it was a joke. Just as
>lying about American threats of war will train our enemies to
>ignore us, you are merely training me to ignore your posts.
That's up to you Harvey, when you abandon debate for an emotional
based rhetorical plea I feel the same way.
Brian
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