mck@ratex.UUCP (Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan) (04/29/85)
>I am offended by DKMcK's cavalier charges of lying and libel against his >opponents. Daniel, I think you are quite capable of giving us a lucid >exposition of your views without Bolshevik debating tactics. You are >participating in a multi-thread debate in which a number of people >(including 'vulgar libertarians') are wearing the SAME colors as yourself. >Mis-attributions are unavoidable and are not, in themselves, evidence of >bad faith. So try to keep it civilized. Please. In that I was probably mistaken about asserting that Baba had lied about Cliff's position on lawyers (albeit that Baba did lie about my position on innuendo), Mr Fencsik is almost certainly right in declaring that I have gone overboard. It is not clear to what extent Fencsik thinks that I have gone overboard. The fact is that the anti-Libertarians have used mis- attribution in the OVERWHELMING MAJORITY of cases, often the SAME net-users using the SAME mis-attribution REPEATEDLY despite it being pointed-out each time that it's a falsehood! How many times, for example, do we read the claim that Libertarians assume perfect knowledge on the part of consumers!?! I attribute this crap to bad faith; another net-user suggests that it is due to stupidity; whatever the case may be, CONTINUAL MIS-ATTRIBUTION -- NEVER FOLLOWED BY RETRACTION -- IS NOT APPROACH OF INTELLIGENT PEOPLE SEEKING THE THE TRUTH. And I don't owe the responsible parties the respect that I would give to intelligent people seeking the truth; what they'll get from me is honesty. TNX, DKMcK