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From: baba@spar.UUCP (Baba ROM DOS)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Baba ROM DOS on jj
Message-ID: <201@spar.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 23-Apr-85 23:09:53 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr 23 23:09:53 1985
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> Your complaints about "bad form" 
> would be true in a formal debate, where both sides were playing
> by a set of rules.  This forum, however, is dominated by people
> of apparant bad will and worse form, and one CANNOT expose such people without
> appearing to cast aspersions. (If one is to mention the bad will, etc.)
> If you are going to cast aspersions on my debating style, in all
> fairness you must be equally severe with all debators.
>
> alice!jj

Your article, which if you will recall was nominally about techniques 
of argumentation, was worth special attention because of the apparent 
hypocrisy with which you on one hand attacked your perceived opponents' 
use of specious "straw man" arguments and on the other hand offered an 
equally specious attack on their motives.

					Baba