On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 7:22 PM, Mike Godwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Anthony writes: > >> Are you just making this up off the top of your head? > > > > Is that an appropriate response? Surely one of your "assume good > > faith" > > memes would be appropriate here, wouldn't it? > > I feel certain that this is at least as appropriate a response as > asking me whether I learned something in law school (remember?). > So you're just going tit-for-tat with me? Is that it? If so, fine, we're even. Now can we get back to something productive? Oh shit. That was a rhetorical question, wasn't it? Damn, now I get another tat. See where the tit-for-tat is leading us? But if you can't source your notion about how no rights are in > conflict, I certainly understand and sympathize. Well, no, I can't source it. I don't know exactly *where* I got this notion of rights. It happened a long time ago, when I was first learning about the term. That said, I've googled around and it does seem that there is a philosophical debate on exactly this question. I think it's mostly a semantic argument, though I also think there is a deeper question as to whether or not humans are fundamentally in conflict with each other (a question which I would tentatively answer in the negative, though I admit that I haven't studied the question enough to be sure about my answer). >> That's a wonderfully misanthropic, cynical view. I imagine you're > >> quite proud of it. > > Again a very educated and informative response. > > I was offering my opinion, is all. I think the idea that "assume good > faith" does not improve the memetic environment -- and may even > degrade it -- to be misanthropic and cynical. You of course are free > to disagree. I completely agree that you think that way. It's not particularly useful for me to know this, though. > > I see you've incorporated > > the "ad hominem" meme quite well. > > I don't understand your use of the term "ad hominem" here. > Instead of attacking my idea, you attacked me. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l