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Re: Taking the bait (was Re: Fair use and allusion?)
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Date: 
Mon, 28 Jun 2004 17:03:18 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote:

Lar said:

(much snippage)

True, but as I mentioned, you have a habit of demanding precise documentation
from your opponents, while you seem to feel yourself exempt from that same
requirement.  It's not a formal debating society, but we [have] established
general standards of discourse.  Among those standards I would include a
basic sauce-for-the-goose policy: if you make a demand of your opponent, you
should accept the same demand when it is made upon you.

Ok, fair enough. I will try to do better going forward.

If I so failed to distinguish then I erred. I thought it was clear but
perhaps it wasn't. If that's the real meat of your argument, and you're
ready to admit that Moore may in fact do disservice to causes he espouses,
then I'll gladly admit that point so we can move on.

Admit that he ["may"] do disservice?  Sure, why not?  The word "may" leaves
me with plausible deniability later, after all.

Here's someone else that just popped up making the same, or a similar, point.

http://www.thesimon.com/magazine/articles/article_of_the_week/0622_fahrenheit_911_playing_into_bush_strategy.html

++Lar



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  Re: Taking the bait (was Re: Fair use and allusion?)
 
(...) Why is that my task? I'm not asserting that your claim is false but rather that your assertions don't support it. (...) That, too, may be a matter of perspective. If your claim is that Moore is not factual, then you must document his (...) (20 years ago, 25-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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