Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!daveb
From: daveb@geac.UUCP (David Collier-Brown)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: Argumentum ad Aspersiam (was Re: Communism)
Keywords: bad latin
Message-ID: <2393@geac.UUCP>
Date: 7 Mar 88 13:14:37 GMT
Article-I.D.: geac.2393
Posted: Mon Mar  7 08:14:37 1988
References: <2380@geac.UUCP> <1083@deepthot.UUCP>
Reply-To: daveb@geac.UUCP (David Collier-Brown)
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|||In article <303@brambo.UUCP> morgan@brambo.UUCP (Morgan W. Jones)
|||writes in response to Kenneth Warkentyne:
|||I think that all of us agree that every human being has the right to
|||have an equal chance to succeed in life. 

| In article <2380@geac.UUCP> daveb@geac.UUCP writes:
||    Actually, I don't think everyone should have an equal chance to
||succeed.  Specifically, I don't think the nice little retarded
||boy next door should have the same chance to succeed as the bright
||girl down the block.

In article <1083@deepthot.UUCP> areski@deepthot.UUCP (Areski) writes:
|	I agree. Nice little retarded boys next door should be canned
|at birth to provide dog feed for the pets of bright little girls down 
|the block. 

   That might be a good response if we were discussing eugenics.
   That might be a good policy if one was very concerned about eugenics.

   But as a response to a an argument of the form "X doesn't work
in the limiting case" (albeit tongue-in-cheek) it falls a bit short.

--dave (see footnote) c-b
[footnote: A nasty response here would be to suggest Areski is
    actually concerned with eugenics, and point out its association
    with Naziism. That would be argumentum ad aspersiam et
    fingerpointiam --dave]
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