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Re: Taking the bait (was Re: Fair use and allusion?)
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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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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