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From: PH408014@BROWNVM.BITNET (Tim Johnson)
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Subject: Re: challenging versus attacking
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Date: 4 Feb 90 18:04:38 GMT
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>Can you give an example of a challenge versus an attack?
>
>Dave


  Sure, Dave.  How 'bout this:

  Geeze Dave, you really are an idiot.  How someone could come
up with such a hare-brained notion is beyond me.  Clearly you
are the victim of some sort of self-delusion.

  Well, Dave, the problem with that argument is that your source
is hardly disinterested, and may well be distorting the facts.
But even if you accept that source, it is not self-evident how
you make the leap from such-and-such fact to such-and-such conclusion.
Etc...

  I'll let you guess which is more acceptable.

                            -Tim