From: Sean Kenny (seankenny@blueyonder.co.uk)
Date: Sat Sep 15 2001 - 16:49:48 MDT
Actually Charlie is using the H****r rule as you erroneously call it
correctly, and you as usual are just too ignorant and arrogant to read his
posts properly.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-extropians@extropy.org
> [mailto:owner-extropians@extropy.org]On Behalf Of J. R. Molloy
> Sent: 15 September 2001 22:20
> To: extropians@extropy.org
> Subject: Re: Apocalypse Pretty Soon
>
>
> From: "Charlie Stross" <charlie@antipope.org>
> > I was using Hitler -- a noted political fanatic -- as a
> > reference point when discussing another bunch of fanatics.
>
> As I said, the thread is dead.
>
> You might already know about the Hitler rule in debate, which
> seems to crop up
> most in online conversation. The rule is that bringing Hitler
> into any subject
> automatically kills the exchange, because comparing people or
> their practices
> to Hitler('s) means the bottom of the rhetoric barrel has been scraped:
> "Hitler was a vegetarian, therefore all decent people eat meat."
>
> <PLONK>
>
>
> Useless hypotheses, etc.:
> consciousness, phlogiston, philosophy, vitalism, mind, free will, qualia,
> analog computing, cultural relativism, GAC, Cyc, Eliza, cryonics,
> individual
> uniqueness, ego, human values
>
>
> We won't move into a better future until we debunk religiosity, the most
> regressive force now operating in society.
>
>
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