Personal Attacks (was Re: ECONOMICS: Reality bites)

From: Cory Przybyla (recherchetenet@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Oct 08 2002 - 20:27:32 MDT


Is there any value to these 2 personal attacks,
regardless of whether anyone feels they are true or
not? I'm not posting this solely as an attempt to
start an argument, for there could be a valid use
(perhaps as a warning to others who might be duped by
someone?) to it that I don't see. But if not, then
perhaps such methods degrade the otherwise valid
opinions the poster wants to express.

Note: The original post (or the part replied to) is
attached at the bottom, to which I don't particularly
see any offensive content in that might invoke such
responses.

--- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> wrote:
> > (Brian Phillips <deepbluehalo@earthlink.net>):
> > Olga,
> > Nobody, But Nobody, ever mistakes you for a
> libertarian of any stripe.
> > ...
> > I suspect the libertarians on the list might take
> you as being less
> > of a statist-socialist sort not truly interested
> in meaningful debate if
> > you didn't constantly chime in with comments whose
> primary
> > commonality is envy disguised as principle.
> > This may be unfair but that is the perception.
>
> Nobody mistakes Olga for being a rational person
> interested in
> real discussion of issues, either.
>
> --
> Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com>

original message

<<Yes, but, sometimes Do It Yourself (akin to Be
Yourself) is the worst
advice
you can give somebody who is Libertarian (i.e., they
need better PR,
and
they need to behave more scrupulously so as not to
give the Big Bad
Press a
stick to hit them with):

http://www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/10/02/offbeat.blue.candidate/index.html

http://www.dawsonspeek.com/archives/000506.php

Speaking as someone who is not a capital "L"
Libertarian, the
perception of
Libertarians from my home planet is that there is a
great "nut" factor
there. This may indeed be unfair, but that is the
perception.

Olga>>

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