Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 18:06:48 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Displacement of Blame[tm] Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20000714180022.04a0a530@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20000715043428.A12814@physics.iisc.ernet.in> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007142203510.97643-100000@spaz.huntsvilleal.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20000714145815.049135c0@localhost> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007142203510.97643-100000@spaz.huntsvilleal.com>
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At 05:04 PM 7/14/2000, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: >But it looks like Brett doesn't know when he's made his point clear. >He can't stand disagreement. Not so. In fact, I enjoy working out disagreements. What I do NOT enjoy is when folks hurl insults for no reason, which some people seem to do whenever they disagree. > If people disagree, he repeats himself. Only if people restate what I said in a way which indicates that they did not UNDERSTAND what I said. >If people continue to disagree, his answer is to get more and more >personal in his criticisms of them. I don't introduce personal criticisms. I do, however, criticize ideas; and I do point out when people are arguing ad hominem or making unwarranted personal attacks. >Also, no matter what the original topic of the thread was, Brett will >always find a way to bring Richard Stallman's name into it, somewhere, >somehow. Not always. He does seem to rear his head a great deal in discussions about advocacy, however, since one of the reasons I advocate the use of the BSDs is because they are necessary to defuse the FSF's nastiness. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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