Re: Treatment of some posters

From: jem (xxx_at_xxx.xxx)
Date: 02/09/05 

Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 11:40:11 -0500

AllYou! wrote:
> "PD" <pdraper@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:1107961556.590927.239370@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
>
>>AllYou! wrote:
>>
>>>There is no justification for vilifying posters simply because they
>>
>>have different ideas,
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>>>not matter how ignorant or misguided they might be. Dressing it up
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>>with self-serving
>>
>>>rationalizations doesn't change that.
>>>
>>>Personal attacks even if it's for simply holding onto ignorant views,
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>>no matter how
>>
>>>terribly mi-guided they might be, is a form of McCarthyism, pure and
>>
>>simple.
>>
>>As to your first paragraph, I agree, but I find that this is rare.
>>Vilification usually happens after
>>- a refusal to confront a different idea with experimental results
>
>
> Not an acceptable reason for villification, even if it were possible to truly identify
> this situation, which it is not.
>
>
>>- a refusal to spend the time to carefully understand the more accepted
>>idea as well as the different idea
>
>
> This is usually a metaphor for refusing to conform. In science, as with most other
> intellectual endeavors in life, the refusal to conform to convention is the only way
> progress is achieved. Think about it. But even if your were right, it's still no reason
> for persaonl attacks.

:) :) :) :) (everybody's laughing) - at the wisdom coming from the
person most guilty of personal attacks on this NG.

Here's some space for you to prove it M. ---->>>