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Hi Rich Lesperance, on 02:45 15/02/00 wrote, >OK, you're counted. Now sit back down. No, I'll chose when I sit back down, thank you very much. > Hmmm, where I come from, defending one's own ideas is called.... >democracy. Democracy also embodies the right to free speech yet the way this list operates is to promote anything but free speech. Contributors who have a position at variance to that of the central committee are invariably lambasted, belittled and insulted to the point where they realise there's just no chance of reasoned discourse... that, my friend, is fascism. That is where you stand. > People usually start throwing labels like 'fascist' around when >they're losing the argument, and want to draw attention away from the fact. If you recall my post was not in reply to an argument, any argument, it was about the malice displayed by the majority contributors to this list. I was not "losing an argument" nor was I trying to draw attention away from a previously held position. > So, tell us how _you_ do it 'better', then. Do what better? Have a reasoned debate? Accept that others are allowed their own opinion? I think I've gone some way to illustrating that in my few recent posts. -- Steve... -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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