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Re: Is off-topic.debate a competition?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 24 Oct 2001 22:48:15 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Ed Jones writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
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> > As long as I'm the one "in the penalty box" any dross I post will be easy to
> > ignore for everyone else (ditto for Scott if he's in) BUT posting something
> > really engaging gets me out and puts Scott in. Now HIS dross gets ignored
> > but if he can come up with something great, back in I go.
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> > It just needs a scorekeeper. I nominate a Dave (to be rotated).
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> Hmm... the hockey analogy seems to bring the whole issue home. It seems that
> for Larry, debate is not about discussion, its about WINNING the debate. Its
> not about learning something new, its about supressing/discrediting the
> opposing opinion/facts.
I don't see this comment as useful. Or true either, for that matter.
In fact most of your comments lately have seemed to be trying to carry the
notion forward that all I want to do is insult others. That's just flat out
false and my record here stands for itself.
I've been letting them go because I had been hoping they'd stop if I ignored
them, but I guess I just wonder why you persist in this vein even if you
didn't get a rise out of me the first few times...
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| (...) Hmm... the hockey analogy seems to bring the whole issue home. It seems that for Larry, debate is not about discussion, its about WINNING the debate. Its not about learning something new, its about supressing/discrediting the opposing (...) (23 years ago, 24-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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