Date sent: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 13:05:00 -0800 (PST)
From: Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com>
To: extropians@extropy.com
Subject: Re: near anything boxes allowed to br in the hands of the public?
Send reply to: extropians@extropy.com
> >> Your phrase, "an organization that fights to keep more guns than people
> >> in circulation" is obviously pejorative and not conducive to polite
> >> disagreement. Please reconsider using such language.
>
> > I politely disagree. A statement of fact, no matter how blunt, is
> > neither pejorative nor inconducive to polite disagreement. If I had
> > called the NRA and its sympathizers "violent antisocial irrational
> > paranoid maniacs," *that* would be pejorative.
>
> Your so-called statement of fact is a statement about the desired goal
> of an organization. Since it is contrary to the publicly stated goals
> of that organization, and contrary to the personal goals of everyone I
> have ever met who belongs to that organization it is not only pejorative
> but clearly a delibrate lie to discredit an opponent you know little
> about rather than having to do the hard work of arguing actual facts.
>
Howzabout THIS for not only pejorative, but irretrievably true? The
cruel and cynical actions of the NRA, as distinguished from their
Madison Avenue bullshit spindoctor-manufactured Hollywood (Prez
Charleton Heston? Yagottabekidding!) image, would lead one to
necessarily believe that the voting majority of their members are
soulless ghouls who have perpetual hard-ons for and wear their
emotionally overwrought and bleeding hearts on their sleeves for
lifeless and engineered-for-the-express-purpose-of-death-dealing
hunks of metal, but cannot muster a shred of sympathy for dead
little girls. They DO sociopathically, and quite obviously, care
more for killing machines than they do for their fellow human
beings, although to call the rest of the race their "fellows" slurs the
rest of humanity by association with pond scum. It might be
impolite to call sick, twisted, demented and bloodthirsty
("PLEASE, Lord, lemme meet a mugger today and legally kill 'im!)
psychopaths what they are, but the truth, by definition, can
NEVER be an insult!
> --
> 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
>
>
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