> At 03:40 PM 3/28/02 -0800 Matt Grimaldi wrote: > >> >> > >> >> Look ma! A crazy person. > >> >> > >> > > >> >Throwing insults is inappropriate. If nothing else it lessens > >> >the impact of your counterargument. > >> > >> Matt, > >> > >> Was this directed at Marvin or Kevin? I couldn't tell...... > >> > >> JDG > > > >Whoever called the other crazy. I'm not entirely sure myself, > >though I'd guess Kevin. >
John D. Giorgis wrote: > That's funny, I consider "traitor" to these United States > to be a worse insult than "crazy" - so I would have figured > that you would have gone after the former insult, rather than > the latter. > I don't recall anyone calling a fellow listmember a traitor. IIRC, in the message that prompted this someone said they thought Bush stole the election. The paragraph following the insult attempts to rebut that opinion, but IMHO it lost any ability to convince anyone BECAUSE of the insult, granting the generous assumption that he *was* trying advance the debate and discussion. -- Matt
