Re: THe OverRelational Manifesto (ORM)

From: Bob Badour <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca>
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 23:22:52 GMT
Message-ID: <gJU1g.63396$VV4.1184507@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca>

Marshall Spight wrote:
> Gene Wirchenko wrote:
>

>>Marshall  Spight wrote:
>>
>>     And since anyone can talk BS without getting effectively called
>>on it by your standards, [...]

>
> Incorrect. This is in fact the opposite of what I advocate.
>
> Let me make it very, very simple:
>
> 1) Insulting people: bad
> 2) Refuting bad ideas on technical merit: good
>
> I ask everyone to please do 2, and please do not do 1.

And isn't it insulting when those whose ideas have been soundly and irrefutably refuted simply compose another incoherent repetition of the same stupid ideas?

> I *encourage* people to debunk bad ideas on the basis of
> technical arguments. I have been quite consistent on this
> point. I do it myself often.

How much time and effort do you suppose is reasonable to debunk someone who will simply copy and paste reams of off-topic gibberish in reply to the debunking? Received on Thu Apr 20 2006 - 18:22:52 CDT