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Subject:	Re: Swift was Right! (He just named the wrong people...)
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date:	Fri, 20 Jun 2003 13:18:23 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek wrote:

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You can’t debate with someone who can’t or doesn’t want to understand

(snipped a word there for dramatic effect)

Precisely, David. We’ve tried and tried to explain it, to no avail, and you can’t or don’t want to understand.

Sorry Larry, I ‘m calling you on this one. All points thrown at me, acknowledged and refuted, as far as I can see, and went beyond. And yet the points I made were ignored, dismissed with ‘appeals to history’, or paranoid rhetoric.

So it isn’t me who doesn’t understand.

Therefore I’m done.

No you’re not. You’ll be back. We all will, it’s our secret vice.

Well, if ya wanna talk about your moron in office, about the ‘evils of socialism’ and such, or whatever topic of choice, I’m in--I’m done with the guns, however.

Dave K (and again :) )

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		Re: Swift was Right! (He just named the wrong people...)
(...) Sorry, you haven't refuted much of anything in this debate, you can't just dismiss Jefferson as irrelevant and consider that a refutation. In essence, that's what you're doing. (21 years ago, 20-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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		Re: Swift was Right! (He just named the wrong people...)
(...) Humanity, yes. Most people are good and kind and honest and want only to live their lives unmolested, living by the golden rule or by the wiccan rule or by libertarian principles (even if they can't articulate any of them clearly, that's still (...) (21 years ago, 19-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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