Re: flaming on pkt

[Paul Henry Rosenberg <rad@xxxxxxx>]

Paul Davidson wrote:

> John Gelles wrote:
>
> >       TO THE SILENT MAJORITY HERE WHO WOULD
> >       GET ON WITH THEIR READING AND AVOID
> >       CONTROVERSY AT THE  COST OF DECORUM
> >
> .>      No doubt there are other forums where language
> >       knows no bounds. And anyone who likes such
> >       license can subscribe to them.
> >
> >       The following are "grounds for censure and delisting" in
> >       my opinion and have my vote that they be censured now
> >       with delisting threatened if they are repeated:
> >
> >            a.  Ric, you have no idea what you're talking about
> >
> >            b.  The entire brouhaha was ... a bad faith attempt ...
> >                 a truly STUPID claim -- that the Earth's resources
> >                 are not finite.
> >
> >            c.  an abysmally STUPID bit of content.
> >
> .>
> >       Yet I know insult when I see it....
> >       But words (calculated or not) that insult individuals who read these
> >       proceedings are above the threshold I vote to install.
>
> Right on the mark. There is no need to us an insult in an argument -- but
> some do when they think they the other side has logic on its side.

Which is PRECISELY why S R Larsson wrote:

> Mr Rosenberg, however, apparently knows less about netiquette than my
> three-year-old son who is just learning to log on.

when I shredded his argument that the Earth's resources aren't finite.

He never even TRIED to respond to my logic or my conclusion.

"When you don't have the facts, argue the law.
When you don't have the law, argue the facts.
When you don't have the facts or the law, pound the table."

And what better way to pound the table than accuse another of pounding
the table?


--
Paul Rosenberg
Reason and Democracy
rad@xxxxxxx

"Let's put the information BACK into the information age!"