Which of the two contadictory premises would you care to retract Mr. Nescio?
Paul Robinson
I will cut this message down in order to reduce the length, so I can
just give one example.
Nomen Nescio wrote (quoting me)::
> > But I have to ask: Why put up with a whole lot of
> > pain and agony over a news group?
>
> You're assuming two things, neither of which is the case.
> [snip]
> 2. We are suffering "pain and agony" over this. You
> proceed from a false assumption.
Elsewhere in the message, Mr. Nescio writes:
" However, there are those of us who are members of the
Editorial Staff who take seriously
the threats and harassment we have suffered, and have seen
others suffer, and do not
appreciate that pain being made fun of. "
Your own words, sir, from the above paragraph:: "we have suffered... do
not appreciate that pain being made fun of"
You said in the prior paragraph that it was not the case that "'we' are
suffering pain and agony."
If your people are not suffering pain and agony then why should the
Editorial Staff be mad at me making fun of the pain that 'we' do not
suffer?
If, on the other hand, they did feel some pain that I made fun of, as
your words claim I did,
then your statement that I proceed from a false assumption is incorrect,
and I was correct
when I said that your people are suffering pain and agony.
Either some of your people - 'we' - have suffered pain that I have
made fun of
or
They are not suffering and I did not make fun of it
because they were not suffering from any pain for me to make fun of..
Which of the two contradictory premises above would you care to retract
Mr. Nescio?
They both cannot be true.
Certainly if Mr. Gordon is contradicting himself you can catch his
errors.
But when you contradict yourself I can catch yours.
Logic is a two-edged sword, Mr. Nessio. It cuts both ways.
--
Paul Robinson <Postm...@paul.washington.dc.us>
"The Greatest philosopher living, possibly the greatest that ever
lived."
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"The lessons of history teach us - if the lessons of history teach us
anything - that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us."