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From: flink@umcp-cs.UUCP (Paul Torek)
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Subject: guilt by association
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Date: Wed, 22-Aug-84 01:01:34 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 22 01:01:34 1984
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	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