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From: jj@rabbit.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Apology to rabbit!jj
Message-ID: <1865@rabbit.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 28-Aug-83 11:19:02 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug 28 11:19:02 1983
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Well, thanks for the note, it's a bit more than I have come to expect of
net.flame.  In any case, I think that there is several  differences between
the twits <formerly> in net.suicide and the argument here.  <Furthermore,
net.suicide isn't dead, and may actually have done some good lately.>

The first is that this IS net.flame.  It's suposed to be unreasonable,
emotional, what have you.

The second is that there is a big difference betwen irony and sadistic behaviour
<my definition of what was happening in net.suicide>, and there is/was
quite a bit of ironic content in the submissions that I was <seems that
I'm not now, too many people don't like seeing their own tactics reflected
back at them> posting.  Most of the irony was
indirect in that I deliberately used the same style/class of argument
(i.e. emotional, insulting, etc) to arguwith a person that they used,
perhaps inadvertantly, in their original article.   Since a lot of
people apparantly base their arguments on what hurts THEM, I seem to have hit a nerve.

Third, I damn well do, as you ("you" not addressed to any one person)
may have figured out, understand that I'm using the tactics I'm bitching
about.  Since you don't like it when I do, consider how I feel when you
use those tactics!   If this were net.politics (and I wasn't particularly (sp)
annoyed at a truely misleading posting that I thought needed parodied) I would
be arguing against the argument tactics in a more reasonable tone of
voice.


Have a flaming day, all.


/*  THIS IS NET.FLAME, not NET.politenessman*/

I apologize for posting a non-flame in this newsgroup.