Doug Henwood wrote:
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> Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
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> ?As soon as it is set up as a mega-corp vs a local mom-and-pop shop, most
> ?US-sers stop thinking rationally and emotions start flying high, as the
> ?small business capitalism is the dearest thing to the US heart.
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> Except that that doesn't apply to me at all.
Consider Wojtek's nonsense as a beautiful example of the nonsense that almost always results when disputants take to describing motives. And it is an ad hominem argument) as well as a personal attack on "USers." He offers not a single argument to support his own position, but suggests that since his opponents are irrational (by definition since they (a) disagree with him and (b) live in the u.s.) their conclusion on any topic must be wrong. And notice he forced you to start off not by talking about eminent domain or its uses in the u.s. but about the purity of your own heart. Motive-mongering almost without exception creates an intellectual and political swamp.
Carrol