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Subject: 
Ad hominem attacks
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Date: 
Thu, 23 Mar 2000 02:52:28 GMT
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I ran across this nosing around. I found it interesting.

http://www.reason.com/0004/fe.rl.show.html

I'd ask, is it appropriate for cigarette taxes to fund groups engaged in
political diatribe, character assassination and compiling "enemies
lists"?

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  Re: Ad hominem attacks
 
(...) It seems that McCarthyism (spelling?) has returned to America. Or, perhaps, we could coin a more modern phrase: Agendaism. Our society, by in large, has abandoned a belief in principles of objective truth that have a moral imperative upon our (...) (25 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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