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- From: roberts@gaul.csd.uwo.ca (Eric Roberts)
- Subject: Re: this has got to stop
- Organization: Computer Science Dept., Univ. of Western Ontario, London, Canada
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 03:33:47 GMT
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- In article <1hvtvbINNgti@agate.berkeley.edu> jeff@emily10.Berkeley.EDU (Jeffrey C. Ely) writes:
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- >Please, everybody just ignore this asshole. The inference people fail to make
- >which keeps this guy around is that *only an idiot* would behave this way!
- >That means that it is a waste of time dealing with him. And I dont mean it is
- >a waste of time because you wont convince himn he is an idiot, that is
- >already obvious. What I mean is it is a waste of time dealing with him
- >because his opinion is worthless. WHO CARES WHAT THIS GUY THINKS!!
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- Sorry but I just had to respond. How dare you (and others like Sven)
- call that person an idiot or say that he does not know how to play without
- a shadow of a proof? How dare you insult him even more when he challenges
- you to a game and not accept the challange? Is it just me, or is this
- a fine example of two year-old mentality? It seems that you need
- to have your memory refreshed as to what an argument ad hominem is.
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- As to your last sentence, I care what this guy thinks. Human beings
- are too stupid to surpress even a single opinion. If you disagree
- with that opinion, that is your right, however, it is not your right
- to insult anyone. You may point out what, in your opinion, is wrong
- with his argument, but it seems to me that you have not even attempted
- to do so.
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- >The Next time you get pissed off at what a total asshole this guy is and get
- >ready to write a response, go through the following thought experiment first:
- >Think of what this guy must be like in person. Imagine how you would react
- >to him if you met him in person. You'd probably just laugh at the guy as
- >a poor deluded guy who just gets on your nerves. You'd want him to go away.
- >You'd realize that fueling his idiotic need for attention will just keep
- >him around. So you'd ignore him. Let's try to do that here.
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- I must show this to a logics professor at our university, he will be
- able to use your paragraph as a perfect example of the kind of arguments
- that should never be used.
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- >Please. Don't respond to anything he says. If anything, just do it out of
- >curiousity to see what he'll do if he has no one to irritate.
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- >Jeffrey Ely
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- Eric
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