[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 8/6/2007 11:35:23 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Are you sure we have a police problem, and not a deranged list
busybody with delusions of grandeur and a persecution complex problem?
Mike:
I notice that you're on the civil citizens' list at
sweetbarkingcheese.com -- so apparently you somehow don't approve of
the gratuitous insults and antagonism admittedly shown too often on
the UC list.
This comment makes no sense at all. It assumes that people who joined
the other list should, for some reason, be extra-civil over here on the
rough'n'tumble Purple list. And if they get tetchy or argumentative
here, they're hypocrites.
It's also a typically shoddy tactic: claim that the other person
_should_ follow some rule of behavior that you've invented for them, and
accuse them of hypocrisy or dishonesty when they _don't_. Here's a
clearer example; "Aren't liberals supposed to be helping the poor? Then
why haven't you given your house to crackheads?"
Of course, if we follow Al's logic... if _this_ list is supposed to be
free and open and uncensored, and _not_ for the tea-and-crumpets
etiquette as Al says... then doesn't it make sense that insults and
invective are _supposed_ to appear here? So why is Al suddenly demanding
civility?
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