On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 10:29:20PM -0800, Gautam Mukunda wrote:

> I have neither the time, the interest, nor the inclination to debate
> with you at this moment.

...

>  If I _wanted_ to debate with fanatics, there are probably more
> interesting places to do it.

...

> Hence the smiley...and the (successfully engendered) much more
> interesting conversation about philosophy.

In other words, if you can't refute the points, call your opponents
fanatics (I'm sure the writers of the Economist would get a laugh out of
being called fanatics) and change the subject to philosophy...


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Erik Reuter   http://www.erikreuter.net/
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