Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site umcp-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!umcp-cs!flink From: flink@umcp-cs.UUCP (Paul Torek) Newsgroups: net.flame,net.abortion Subject: guilt by association Message-ID: <8140@umcp-cs.UUCP> Date: Wed, 22-Aug-84 01:01:34 EDT Article-I.D.: umcp-cs.8140 Posted: Wed Aug 22 01:01:34 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 23-Aug-84 03:18:46 EDT Distribution: na Organization: U of Maryland, Computer Science Dept., College Park, MD Lines: 18 Stated differently, don't call it "Nazi-like" just because you don't like it. Dick Dunn {hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd (303)444-5710 x3086 Right on. I'm tired of the old guilt-by-association non-argument. "The Nazis believed xyz, therefore xyz is wrong" is a non-sequitur. Even the worst scums of the earth are sometimes right. Rather than find one thing your opponents have in common with the Nazis, and then proceeding with the insane extrapolation that therefore they have everything in common with them, how about actually describing your opponents directly? If they're such lowlifes, it will be clear from the description. Better yet, address your opponents' arguments BEFORE impugning their character or motives. Otherwise I promise to ignore you. --The aspiring iconoclast, Paul Torek, umcp-cs!flink