----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 10:12 PM Subject: Re: Debate requirements
> > I wasn't thinking in terms of formal debate teams, which I never participated > in. I had in mind something closer to the model of academic writing (for > example), which *does* require that you acknowledge evidence that does not > support your thesis. One of the signs of a hack writer or a tub-thumper is > ignoring or, worse, suppressing contradictory evidence. Good God Man, you hold my posts to the standards of formal accademic writing? <grin> Yes, I agree, if I were to write a paper on the subject, I'd better put in the various viewpoints with their supporting data and then why I chose mine. But, even I don't want the list to be that formal. :-) Dan M.
