Nick with wonderfully trollish eyebrows!
I am admittedly being trollish here, and as you all know who know me,
I am no stranger to confused thought, but ....
confused thought, what?
He who criticizeth the reasoning of another without spelling out the
reasoning thus criticized engageth in poor reasoning.
He who useth CAPs or *emboldened* or boosted text doth engage in
conflating emphasis with persuasiveness <grin>
I say this not (just) to be a troll, but because I honestly feel we in
this country have a terrible problem of communication. WE have lost
any sense of why it is important to try to come of a shared view of
our inevitably common future. And if people in FRIAM cannot talk to
one another in a reasonable way, how are the people in washington ever
to do so.
I do believe that we FriAMites *do* talk in a mostly reasonable, albeit
oftentimes, argumentative fashion. I believe that *many* people in
Washington talk reasonably with eachother much of the time. But I
*don't* think the system of legislation (or adjudication or execution)
necessarily support reasonableness. It definitely is being "gamed" a
great deal.
Now I know there are some right wingers on the FRIAM list. I talk to
them every week. And I wager that they are just rolling their eyes
and saying, "Wow! Talk about the pot calling the kettle black."
and the pots and the kettles were all covered in soot...
And while I agree with your conclusions, mostly, I cannot find any
tools to defend this conversation against that patently just accusation.
In short, "Who's that crossing my bridge!"
Me... Carl has talked me into attending FriAM /en verite/!
I prefer Glen's regular exhortation: "Get off my lawn!"
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