-- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@...> wrote:
<If you really wanted to help Barry out,> This may be the essence of our disagreement Judy. This is not a motive for me here. > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" <curtisdeltablues@> > wrote: > <snip> > > Well I gave it a shot everyone. And although I know in advance > > that it was not good enough to satisfy your views of my > > obligations here, it is the best that I can do with the > > inconvenient intrusion of my own POV on all this. > > You're a lot better than Barry at satire, but you > make just as much use of straw men in your satire as > Barry does in his lectures on how we should all > behave. > > Straw men are fundamentally *dishonest*, of course. > Satire doesn't need to stick to the truth as closely > as straight lecturing does, but the farther you > depart from truth, the less effective the satire. > > (At least you have enough self-knowledge to avoid > criticizing people for doing what you yourself do > routinely. If you really wanted to help Barry out, > you might think about conveying to him privately > that his tendency to do this slaughters his own > points and makes him look ridiculous.) >
