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- From: keegan@acm.acm.rpi.edu (James G. Keegan Jr.)
- Subject: Re: for bill overpeck
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- Reply-To: james g keegan jr <keegan@acm.rpi.edu>
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- References: <1992Sep11.152129.21600@acd4.acd.com>
- Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 04:07:35 GMT
- Lines: 66
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- In article <1992Sep11.152129.21600@acd4.acd.com>
- wdo@TEFS1.acd.com (Bill Overpeck) writes:
- -> In <1992Sep11.004555.14711@crd.ge.com> keegan@pan.crd.ge.com
- -> (James G Keegan Jr) writes: >
- -> garvin+@cs.cmu.edu (Susan Garvin) writes: >>
- -> james g keegan jr <keegan@crd.ge.com> writes: >>>
- -> #wdo@TEFS1.acd.com (Bill Overpeck) writes: >>>>
- -> >>>> I read each of them. You seem to be confusing
- -> >>>> immaturity with mental illness.
- -> >
- -> >>> i suspected that you'd say that. it's too bad,
- -> >>> really, that you don't think therapy might help.
- -> >>> perhaps you're just doggedly hanging on to a point
- -> >>> you've already lost.
- -> >
- -> >> I think that Overpeck is caught in the "don't
- -> >> criticize another pro-forcer too strongly" trap. He
- -> >> seems to think that it's reasonable for Holtsinger
- -> >> to not expect to have his sources checked, even
- -> >> though I had given advance notice that I would do
- -> >> so. He seems to think that it's only a sign of
- -> >> immaturity when a 21 year old is convinced that he
- -> >> is a fictional entity (or an inanimate object.)
- -> >
- -> > it's a consistent reaction for him, if that's what he's
- -> > doing now. he did the same thing with djr for a long,
- -> > long time. from what i read as the tone of his notes, i
- -> > think he tried to use this particular thread as an
- -> > extension of an older disagreement. of course, i could
- -> > be mistaken here. he seems to have jumped on what
- -> > appeared to be an opening and when that turned out not
- -> > to be the case, then things got convoluted for him.
- ->
- -> My, for someone who's fond of cynically accusing others
- -> of being "mind-readers", you're awfully willing to engage
- -> in some serious presumption, yourself.
-
- where have i done that, bill? are you referring to the
- paragraph preceeding yours? if so, do the phrases "from what
- I read," "i think," "i could be mistaken," he seems" strike
- you as anything other than an expression of opinion?
-
- -> However, I, in my convolution, am still waiting for a list
- -> of symptoms to substantiate your diagnostic impressions.
-
- are you referring to the "diagnostic impressions"
- you claim i've made here?
-
- since i haven't made any "diagnostic impressions," it's
- difficult to see what you're getting at.
-
- -> >> Teenage women who want to make decisions for
- -> >> themselves, on the other hand, are deemed to be in
- -> >> desperate need of couselling.
- -> >
- -> > nice point.
- ->
- -> It would be, if I'd ever made such a ludicrous assertion.
- -> Attributing such a claim to me is disingenuous.
-
- are you implying that counseling teenage girls who
- wish to have an abortion is ludicrous, bill?
-
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