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Old 07-09-2004, 05:08 PM
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Oh, and an off topic note:

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Originally Posted by Thantor3
And please, spare me the righteous invectives about censorship, since clearly what is being discussed is behavior generated from an inner locus of control.
This comment I found very out of place. Could you please explain what it referrs to? I haven't posted in any other thread than the football thread the last 2 weeks or so, but I just read up a bit and I found nothing at all about censorship except a note from T' in the Reagan is dead-thread that "If it's that big of an issue or you feel that censored then feel free to contact Buck about it" and my reply that "it is not an issue of feeling personally censored" and a referral to Dottie's Sensitivity or not in politics-thread where I discuss equality issue that is the focus of my critisism (that is where I take Fas, Morlock and the thousands of South American civilians whose families were killed or who where jailed and tortured as examples of people's whose personal feelings obviously don't count as much as the Reagan-admirers' feelings.). In the same thread, Gwalchmai posted "How is this censorship? How can this be an assault on free speach?". However, it is unclear what these questions refer to (or maybe they are not meant as a comment to what somebody else posted) but please note that nowhere have I found any post who has referred to censorship or free speach in relationship to somebody critising that the Reagan-admirers personal feelings should have priority over for instance the Contra's victims personal feelings. If you have found any such referrals, please cite it, because I am under the impression that this censorship-issue has grown into a strawman argument. You and DW have mentioned some things you view negatively in discussions here at SYM, and I will also mention something I view as the single most negative feature in any discussion, and that is not being able to discuss a topic with arguments about the topic, but instead using fallacies such as strawmen (ie claiming the opponent said something he didn't and critisise this as if the opponent said so) and ad hominems (personal attacks such as name calling and personal accusations).
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