From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lcrocker@mercury.colossus.net)
Date: Tue Nov 30 1999 - 12:54:31 MST
> Unfortunately, this is a common pattern for Extropians. We cannot debate
> any area of serious disagreement... How useful can this list be if debate
> fails upon any real difference of opinion?
Since when is debate a "failure" just because none of the combatants
switch sides? That's not the goal: the debate is a value in itself.
Lots of lurkers get to hear the opposing points of view, the views
themselves are clarified and developed, lines are drawn, terms
defined, brains are exercised. That sounds pretty productive to me.
-- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lcrocker.html> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Fri Nov 01 2002 - 15:05:53 MST