Re: a discussion on OIT: attention moderator

From: david_russell_watson
Message: 58742
Date: 2008-05-21

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alexandru_mg3" <alexandru_mg3@...>
wrote:
>
> A simple logical well presented contra-argument will destroy
> immediately any false ideea and any ideology that will be
> constructed based on it.

Oh if only that were true, but it is not, and sometimes
it proves necessary to haul a madman out of the building
in a straightjacket.

> Use that Argument in place to qualify an ideology as BAD, and
> based on this to qualify the related people as being BAD.

I think it's usually adequate to qualify the ideology as
simply stupid, and ask that its discussion be taken some
place else, withholding comment, if possible, about its
proponent, and there certainly never being justification
for commenting on his family or nation.

David