--- Mario Goveia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Dr. Helekar, it is disappointing to see you persist >in your claim that I called you names during the >Battle of the Behinds. I always use epithets >advisedly, and rarely retract real targeted name >calling I have engaged in, as Mervyn will confirm. >In this case, I really believe I did not use any >epithets against you, just spirited comments. >
This I would consider is name-calling: "DEFENDER OF AIDS-INFECTED DRUG USERS" If this name was not repeatedly called, and if there was no history of such name-calling, then I would not have made my "spirited comments". I have been called many things in the past and since, and have been spuriously accused of various offenses (Please check the Goanet and Goa-Goans archives to verify). But I have never lost my cool. I have used one of the following strategies in my responses, all done in a deliberate manner to simply discourage my opponent in debate from persisting in such name-calling: 1. I have completely ignored the name-calling, especially if done infrequently or occasionally. 2. I have used sarcasm in response. 3. I have mocked the behavior, sometimes invoking my alter-ego, President Pandurang Fernandes. 4. I have sent in an over-dramatized response, consisting of what one Goanet Administrator referred to as "adjective-laced admonishment". Cheers, Santosh
