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Re: Re: Personal attacks are no substitute for logical consistency

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel J. Weitzner)
Wed May 25 23:15:42 1994

Date: Wed, 25 May 1994 15:05:52 -0600
To: karl@mcs.com (Karl Denninger)
From: djw@eff.org (Daniel J. Weitzner)
Cc: karl@mcs.com, com-priv@psi.com

At  2:01 PM 5/25/94 -0500, Karl Denninger wrote:


>> Please do so.  If you or anyone else has the commitment to create an
>> organization that supports and advocates for your principles, whatever they
>> are,  we wouldn't have to have stupid discussions like this.  You and your
>> ideological compatriots might actual contribute some useful to the policy
>> process.
>
>Oh, I'm sorry.  Only in a dictatorship are people so damn *arrogant* as to
>call a discussion on the principles and basis that an organization stands
>*stupid*.
>

No disrespect for your views implied.  The issues are by no means stupid,
but discussions like this are, because we're all (I include myself) wasting
out time flaming out into the net, instead of working for the principles
we're so exorcised about.

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