Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site watmath.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!saquigley From: saquigley@watmath.UUCP (Sophie Quigley) Newsgroups: net.politics,can.politics Subject: Re: Liberty and Isolation are not the same things Message-ID: <9046@watmath.UUCP> Date: Wed, 19-Sep-84 10:58:40 EDT Article-I.D.: watmath.9046 Posted: Wed Sep 19 10:58:40 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 20-Sep-84 06:29:36 EDT References: <5167@utcsrgv.UUCP>, <4323@utzoo.UUCP> Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 27 From Laura Creighton >Personally, I thought that you were just trying to bait me, and I won't >be baited. Lay off terms like ``psychotic'', will you? Nobody is going >to be willing to argue with you if your basic position is to call >someone who does not measure reality according to your lights ``psychotic''. >There is no future, because you are not saying that ``Libertarians have >made a mistake in believing X'' but rather ``Libertarians are crazy to >believe X''. If you honestly believe that we are crazy then you come >off rather the fool in arguing with us, since a crazy person is not >expected to be reasonable (either all across the board, or at least in >the area of his mania). If you do not believe that we are crazy, but believe >that we have made a mistake then you are simply indulging in gratuitous >insults. Now that your tactic is known we are all going to avoid arguing >with you like the plague until you reform your behaviour because we >all have got better things to do than be a receptical for abuse. > >Enough. Agreed with you Laura, "psychotic" was the wrong thing to call you. I think "paranoid" is much more appropriate! <-: <-: <-: :-> :-> Sophie Quigley ...!{clyde,ihnp4,decvax}!watmath!saquigley