Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site opus.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hao!cires!nbires!opus!rcd From: rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn) Newsgroups: net.abortion,net.flame Subject: Re: Another look Message-ID: <672@opus.UUCP> Date: Sat, 4-Aug-84 05:16:13 EDT Article-I.D.: opus.672 Posted: Sat Aug 4 05:16:13 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 6-Aug-84 00:45:09 EDT References: <494@rayssd.UUCP> <3344@cbscc.UUCP> Organization: NBI, Boulder Lines: 21 From Paul Dubuc: > This type of reasoning isn't new. We're all used to thinking > of Jews as humans, but in Nazi Germany they were "Creatures 'murdered' > legally". Why is it that people never tire of inflammatory, specious references to Nazism. This has got to be one of the most perverse forms of argument on the net: Make a connection between your opponent's viewpoint and Nazis (it doesn't matter how tenuous). Then don't say anything else because everyone knows that Nazi Germany was one of the lowest points in recorded civilization. In fact, hope you don't have to say anything else, because starting from that point, anything you try to say will only make you look sillier yet. (People who argue by comparing their opponents to Nazis are only trying to win their arguments by appeal to the same empty, emotional rhetoric approach that the Nazis used to rise to power...no, wait a minute, I've got to work on this one...:-) -- Dick Dunn {hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd (303)444-5710 x3086 ...Lately it occurs to me what a long, strange trip it's been.