On 11/8/03 2:24 PM, "Rick" <giantsrick13(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
I became overly emotional last night, and I apologize
for that. But when I am
constantly attacked as not only worthless to the project but damaging to it,
and when any attempt at explanation is dismissed out of hand as nothing but a
"straw man" argument, I see that there is no point in continuing this
so-called discussion. I am therefore dropping out of any further argument on
this subject.
Your participation in the discussion is valued.
Your participation in the project is valued. I don't believe anyone attacked
you as worthless and damaging to the project--I certainly did not.
It is not the case that any attempt at explanation is dismissed out of hand
as nothing but a straw man argument.
It *is* the case that in this discussion a lot of straw men have been
built--that is, many arguments have been of the form "I think A is bad
because B, which is evidently bad, could happen", without any argument to
connect A to B.
Or the argument "Why are you defending A, which is bad?" when noone was
defending A (such as the Antonio Alvarado article).
These are both straw man arguments.