On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 05:56:53PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > This is precisely the kind of sarcastic, contentless rejoinder > that makes one inclined to dismiss posts from you as > irrelevant. The responsibility for prejudice lies with the person who practices it. > Mistating the opposition viewpoint in a fashion, reducing it to > riducule, is not conducive to any kind of discussion, far less a > healthy one. But it is conducive to humor and a reduction in tension[1], and I don't attempt to pass my jokes off as serious statements in any event. [1] at least among those who share the sentiment; I don't claim to be funny to people who hate my guts -- G. Branden Robinson | When dogma enters the brain, all Debian GNU/Linux | intellectual activity ceases. branden@debian.org | -- Robert Anton Wilson http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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