mck@ratex.UUCP (Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan) (04/26/85)
Lines marked '>' and '>>>' are those of Baba; lines marked '>>' are mine. >>>I seem to recall that one of the examples of ludicrous straw men given >>>by DKMcK was in fact a proposition put forward by a self-proclaimed >>>libertarian several weeks earlier. >> >> 1) Rather than seeming to recall, why doesn't Baba give us a concrete >>example? > >Quite simply, spar doesn't have enough disk space to archive more than a >couple of weeks worth of news. Both your article and the one it put >me in mind of are lost under the rainbow. If you would care to mail >me a copy of your article, I'll be happy to tell you which example >I was referring to. Wonderful! Baba makes an assertion which he cannot substantiate, and the truth of which I question, and then asks him that I send him the proof. If I knew of an article which proved his accusation, I wouldn't have challenged it in the first place. I find his request extremely bizarre! >> 2) The time that I attacked Baba for using a straw-man, he had claimed >>that Cliff had said a Libertarian country would need no lawyers, when >>Cliff had actually said that differences in the skill-levels of lawyers >>would not affect outcomes. Cliff's assertion may be debatable, but >>apparently Baba found it too challenging and opted to lie. > >[Cliff has] publicly agreed that my (mis)interpretation of his statement >was natural and without malice, but not at all what he had intended. >Rather than stoop to your level, I'll assume you missed that exchange. Well, since I appear to have screwed up badly here, I apologize. Of course, the alternative would be to stoop to your level, and simply drop-out of the argument rather than concede error. Back later, DKMcK