Elaine Keown wrote,

> > Hardly.  If the rest of you hadn't agreed with his
> > judgments most of the time, the Roadmap might look 
> > quite different.  It's more like Potter
> > Stewart on pornography.
> 
> Who's Potter Stewart?  (I don't own a TV).....Elaine

Potter Stewart doesn't get on TV much these days.

A while ago, when asked to define pornography (or, possibly it
was obscenity?) his response was something like, 'I can't define
it, but I know it when I see it'.

So, his expert supporters could conclude from this that Potter
Stewart was a just and righteous person who spoke the truth
with conviction.

Experts from the opposition, however, could infer that Potter
Stewart must've seen a lot of pornography in order to be such
an expert on distinguishing it.

The above merely to illustrate that experts in any persuasion
seldom agree on everything; if they did -- they couldn't be
contentious.

Best regards,

James Kass


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