Rude, uncharitable, tiresome, last word. (Was Re: [lbo-talk] sordid and legal to boot.....

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It's dumb to get your panties in a bunch because I
talk to the list, including you. I regret that I can't
recall all the peculiar things you idiodsyncratiucally
consider disrepectful. I don't, particularly in the
context of a public discussion, consider referring to
an interlocutor in the third person, I did as a
student, I did as as a teacher, and as a  lawyer it is
considered a mnaifestation of courtroom respect and
decorum, if maybe a bit formal. So if you can't be
charitable yourself and accept the considerab;e
respect I've accorded you as a person and your minds
and ideas of the years, but feel obliged to flame me,
well, screw you, as I said. That history cuts both
says. For the substance of it, II gave a serious
argument against a position I thought you were
proposing in good faith. If I wasted my time, regrets,
I'll try not to take your ideas so seriously in the
future. Maybe you can signal the onesa that are
serioius and the ones that are just clownassholery.

--- snitsnat <snitilicious at tampabay.rr.com> wrote:


> At 05:54 AM 7/17/2005, Chris Doss wrote:
> >This maybe isn't passive-aggressive, but it's
> >certainly aggressive! ;)
> 
> yes. there's no confusion, is there? when someone
> claims to respect me, 
> then treats me with none, they get it dished right
> back. when a person who 
> claims to be a friend, writes _about_ me in the
> third person, as if he's 
> speaking to everyone on the list but me, it is,
> likewise, an aggressive 
> debate tactic:
> 
> 'look everyone, Joe Schmoe says this. Must be Joe
> Schmoe is afraid of 
> biology. OF course, on Joe Schmoe's view....."
> 
> Is this an attempt to have a conversation _with_ Joe
> Schmoe? It's having a 
> conversation with the rest of the list _ABOUT_ Joe
> Schmoe. This is not 
> conducive to constructive discussion. Nor is it
> helpful to engage in 
> logical fallacies -- erecting straw men,
> misrepresenting the other's position.
> 
> Now, in the context of some public debate forum,
> where you actually _do_ 
> turn to an audience and address them, where the
> point is to be scored and 
> win and convince an audience, maybe it's acceptable.
> Here? No. I realize 
> Miles does it as well. I've complained before, to
> both Miles and Justin. If 
> Miles were to do it to me, he'd get flamed too.
> 
> But, if you wish, I will blame it on overwork and
> lack of sleep. When 
> pressed, I'll explain that I've always lived on too
> little sleep and been 
> overworked. @@
> 
> hummingsesamestreetunesily,
> 
> Kelley
> 
> "Finish your beer. There are sober kids in India."
> 
>                       -- rwmartin  
> 
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