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- From: dcrosgr@uoft02.utoledo.edu
- Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
- Subject: Re: this has got to stop
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.133203.777@uoft02.utoledo.edu>
- Date: 1 Jan 93 13:32:02 EST
- References: <1hvtvbINNgti@agate.berkeley.edu> <1993Jan1.033347.12988@julian.uwo.ca>
- Organization: University of Toledo, Computer Services
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- In article <1993Jan1.033347.12988@julian.uwo.ca>, roberts@gaul.csd.uwo.ca (Eric Roberts) writes:
- > In article <1hvtvbINNgti@agate.berkeley.edu> jeff@emily10.Berkeley.EDU (Jeffrey C. Ely) writes:
- >>
- >>
- >>
- >>
- >>
- >>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!!
- >
- > 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.
- >
- > 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.
- >
- >
- >>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.
- >>
- >
- > 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.
- >
- >>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.
- >>
- >>Jeffrey Ely
- >>
- > Eric
- >
- >
-
- Eric, you can count yourself as one of the five voices on here that are
- actually concerned with truth in any way, shape, or form. As a result, I expect
- you to draw a fair amount of flame attacks.
-
- But, I have no doubt that in the long run, in the big game of life, you'll beat
- them all.
-
- Two thumbs up.
-
- DMC
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