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Subject:	Re: This new subject doesn't reset the thread (Re: Lego Direct (was Re: Georgia LEGO Outlet is Cool!)
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Date:	Thu, 30 Mar 2000 02:16:18 GMT
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richard marchetti wrote in message ... > YOU HAVE SELECTED YOURSELF IN FOR INCLUSION IN THE ARGUMENT > > and are then free to have the fun you so richly deserve. That still doesn't entitle you to insult people. If I say "All people who live in East Boogle are morons." (thinking that's a totally fake location) and someone says "hey, I live in East Boogle", you've still insulted them, in fact, if anything, it's a worse insult than an intentional insult. I find this also similar to using stereotypes or telling ethnic jokes. Another point, it's almost impossible to create a hypothetical scenario to debate some issue which is not in some way tied to real examples of the issue. You were attempting to debate how unfair it was that someone would be contacted by TLC and be given the opportunity to buy all of some set. Well, guess what, the whole conversation got started because Larry was given just this opportunity. How is he supposed to say "well, gee, Richard really isn't talking about me in his example"? Frank

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		Re: This new subject doesn't reset the thread (Re: Lego Direct (was Re: Georgia LEGO Outlet is Cool!)
(...) But you see, I was wrong, because I didn't notice that Richard changed the subject, which in his world view starts a new thread, regardless of how all the newsreaders in the world implement it, and regardless of how Lugnet itself in the web (...) (25 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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		Re: This new subject doesn't reset the thread (Re: Lego Direct (was Re: Georgia LEGO Outlet is Cool!)
(...) That seems pretty reasonable to me provided you allow that I could have failed to implement that DE FACTO standard due to the fact that there is no OBJECTIVE standard and still be faultless. And that still doesn't address the fact that I (...) (25 years ago, 29-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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