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Re: LP statement on terrorist attacks
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Sat, 15 Sep 2001 15:59:50 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
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> > That an opinion is being ignored doesn't make it wrong or even irrelevant...
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> Well, not unless it's being ignored *because* it's wrong or even
> irrelevant; that is, the fact that an opinion is ignored cannot be taken as
> proof that it's being ignored for political reasons.
Or as disproof either.
You are correct sir. Insert a "necessarily" in the appropriate place so my
statement reads:
That an opinion is being ignored doesn't *necessarily* make it wrong or even
irrelevant.
I would say that these particular opinions (that we ought not to meddle,
that we need a measured response, that we ought not to restrict civil
liberty further) are *not at all* wrong or irrelevant. I differ with the LP
on how measured the measurement ought to be, my yardstick is, I think, a bit
bigger...
But I suppose you would expect me to say that I thought the LP was mostly
right, ne?
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