[net.politics] Cipriani's Withering Away of the State -- Sevener's Latest Fallacy

mck@ratex.UUCP (Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan) (01/23/85)

>I am glad you are able to reason so clearly and unemotionally.
>The world will certainly be a better place when it is ruled by such
>magnificent displays of reasons.
>tim sevener  whuxl!orb

You seem to thrive on fallacies.  The fact that I am an INTENSELY EMOTIONAL
person in no way invalidates the quality of my reasoning.  In point of fact,
there is a logical time to love, a logical time to cry, and a logical time to
get angry.  While you were not actively involved in an attempt to evade the
points that I made, you may have noticed a difference in the tone of my
response to Mr Kolodney and the tone of my response to you.  This is because,
whatever his errors, he had made what seemed to me to be an honest attempt to
get at the truth; you, on the other hand, are an eristic.  You introduce straw
men (either by mis-quoting or by making up lies wholesale); you pretend to a
knowledge of economics which you don't have, assuming (accurately until
recently) that your audience won't know enough to catch you up; you ignore (by
hook or by crook) those responses which show the fallacies in your arguments.
It is only logical that I should hold you in almost utter contempt.

                                        Up to my armpits in disgust,
                                        Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan
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