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- From: joltman@cookie-crisp.ai.mit.edu (T. Andy Frakes)
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- Subject: Re: Don't blame lawyers!
- Message-ID: <1hn68aINNjag@life.ai.mit.edu>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 15:24:58 GMT
- Article-I.D.: life.1hn68aINNjag
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- In article <1992Dec26.182617.643@uoft02.utoledo.edu>, dcrosgr@uoft02.utoledo.edu writes:
- |> While that may have been a tactic you used to while away the hours in your
- |> otherwise pointless existance, my posts have been designed to question the
- |> positions stated by 'experts' and if said positions are the result of informed,
- |> impartial decision-making.
-
- You seem to make a point of trying to pass yourself off as a well-educated
- scholar by using eloquent wording. This sentence fragment, although humorously
- insulting, is not that easy to decipher. If you are so concerned about your
- image, you should take the time to proofread your posts.
-
- |> Just because YOU waste your life does not mean that everyone else is as
- |> pointless as you.
-
- Again, if you want to sound intelligent and respectable (and you obviously
- aspire to do so), it's usually not very convincing to lower yourself to simply
- insulting people whose viewpoints you don't agree with. If you can't think of
- an intelligent response, it's best to just say nothing at all. Otherwise you'll
- just make yourself sound more ignorant than you are.
-
- |> Make no mistake, my attacks are entirely serious.
-
- They seem to be seriously lacking in substance due to an overabundance of
- fluff you put into them. You're so concerned with smearing your 'opponent' and
- trying to make people think that you're the most intelligent person around (I
- guess you assume that if you can make people think that you're the smartest, then
- people will give more weight to your opinions or something) that you have little
- space left over for the issue at hand.
-
- |> > Oh well. I think I'll start reading this thread for a while in case it
- |> > proves interesting.
- |>
- |> Not with such un-educable people as yourself jumping in...except, of course, to
- |> those who have similar degrees of repsect for legitimate questions.
-
- The only reason I jumped in was to point out a little irony about a certain
- poster, regardless of my repsect for legitimate questions.
-
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