[lbo-talk] Discussing the Crisis/Bailout

[John Thornton]

shag wrote:
>> On Wed, 8 Oct 2008 04:25:48 -0700 (PDT), Chris Doss
>> <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> You use all this moralistic language. You sound like St. Augustine
>>> discussing the false allure of wordly concupiscence.
>>>       
>
> Dimytri wrote:
>   
>> The fact that I, personally, that my character or characteristics,
>> continue to be a subject illustrates the lack of interests in the actual
>>     
> issues,
>   
>> and
>> an inability to address the many syllogisticaly valid (and therefore
>> potentialy refutable) arguments I have made. In any case, there is nothing
>> moralistic about pointing out the fact that the balance of payments
>> remains
>> the root of the crisis. You won't try to understand the topic, so instead
>> you try and understand who I am, which is irrelevant.
>>
>> Now I will now add my myself along with the bailout to the list of topics
>> which I am done discussing for now. So let's talk about something else.
>>     
>
> A criticism of your rhetoric as moralizing isn't a criticism of you.
>
> shag

It is if you're a performance artist.

John Thornton