master baiting!
-TLP
--- In [email protected], "Thomas L. Knapp"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Mr. Ireland,
>
> There are two separate issues here.
>
> One of them is the quality of debate. The other is the effect that
the
> debate might have on libertarian activism, outreach, etc. With
respect
> to you personally, these two issues are closely related.
>
> You constantly claim that your arguments are backed by science, even
> though you can't -- or won't -- provide so much as a single citation
> from any scientific reference to substantiate any of your alleged
> arguments.
>
> You constantly claim that your arguments are backed by "a thousand
> years of libertarian philosophy" even though you have never, in the
> several years that I've followed your blatherings, provided any
> evidence that you possess the slightest grasp of libertarian
> principles, ideas or history, or for that matter the ability to do
> anything except spout a few maxims whenever you decide that you feel
> since you feel "x" about something, "x" must be "libertarian."
>
> In summary, you've never made any substantive contribution to any
> debate on this list, and your presence in the libertarian movement
> generally raises the question of whether you're simply a loudmouth
> ignoramus, or whether you're an anti-libertarian mole on a mission
to
> bog down the movement internally and embarrass it publicly.
>
> And yes, Terry, I know that this is ad hominem. Feel free to
moderate
> as you think necessary, but I'll state in advance that I probably
> won't respond to whatever idiotic bluster the hominem pulls out of
his
> ass in response to my ad.
>
> Regards,
> Tom Knapp
>
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