----- Original Message ----- From: "Erik Reuter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 10:07 PM Subject: Re: Demanding change (was RE: Mmm, mesquite smoky goodness (was Re: (~) Please.)) > > > There's that straw man again. Who among us has said that one cannot > > post something that upsets the majority? > > There's that faulty memory again. Just look back to the thread where a > number of people advocated banning Mark; before that, there was talk > about kicking off JDG; before that, Alberto.
Actually, that's faulty memory and logic. :-) First, with JDG and Alberto, the campaign to knock them off was _singular_. That's the memory part. Second, Mark did specific things that were against the guidelines. The logical fallacy here is If there are things that offend the majority that cannot be done, then one cannot offend the majority. That mistakes There is an element of set S for All elements of set S. My class in symbolic logic was over 25 years ago, but I still remember a bit. Dan M.
