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- From: dcrosgr@uoft02.utoledo.edu
- Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
- Subject: Re: Pardon Fischer?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.092353.707@uoft02.utoledo.edu>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 09:23:53 EST
- References: <1992Dec21.102024.588@uoft02.utoledo.edu> <1992Dec28.050754.13986@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Dec28.105407.685@uoft02.utoledo.edu> <1992Dec29.053404.22836@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec29.053404.22836@midway.uchicago.edu>, hau4@ellis.uchicago.edu (sven hauptfeld) writes:
- > In article <1992Dec28.105407.685@uoft02.utoledo.edu> dcrosgr@uoft02.utoledo.edu writes:
- >>In article <1992Dec28.050754.13986@midway.uchicago.edu>, hau4@ellis.uchicago.edu (sven hauptfeld) writes:
- >>
- >>[boring nonsense deleted]
- >>>
- >>> Perhaps you should turn your brain on and reread the whole dialogue (as
- >>> reposted hereby).
- >>
- >>Brain is on. And, I have been reading. Maybe YOU should be more careful about
- >>what you post. (Unless, of course, you deny you have been comparing the
- >>legitimacy of punishing Fischer with the legitimacy of punishing people
- >>who butchered six millon helpless victims.)
- >>
- >>
- > Well, it is obvious that your logic is rudimentary, so what I'll say will be
- > futile, but anyway. The initial argument (yours or someone else's, but
- > certainly not very smart) was that Fischer shouldn't go to jail because he is
- > not a threat to anybody, physically. By simple reductio ad absurdum I showed
- > that the argument was stupid.
-
- Uh Sven, I have very bad news. That tactic is NOT considered a valid tactic in
- serious debate. Yes, it used to influnece the masses who are not refined enough
- to recognize it, and by ignorant fools who have no valid ammunition, but it is
- NOT valid, as ANYTHING can be reduced to absurdity if the speaker is willing to
- lower himself far enough.
-
- i.e. Kiddie porn is the same as playing chess.
-
- It could have stayed that way, but then you had
- > to show that you are stupid, too. Oh well...
-
- Well, I have shown someone is stupid. But, its not me that got that title...
-
- Let's see, Sven has stated that playing chess=kiddieporn=prostitution=shooting
- the president=playing chess
-
- Nope, wasn't me.
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- >
- > Sven
- >
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