On 11/8/03 2:24 PM, "Rick" giantsrick13@yahoo.com wrote:
I became overly emotional last night, and I apologize for that. But when I am constantly attacked as not only worthless to the project but damaging to it, and when any attempt at explanation is dismissed out of hand as nothing but a "straw man" argument, I see that there is no point in continuing this so-called discussion. I am therefore dropping out of any further argument on this subject.
Your participation in the discussion is valued.
Your participation in the project is valued. I don't believe anyone attacked you as worthless and damaging to the project--I certainly did not.
It is not the case that any attempt at explanation is dismissed out of hand as nothing but a straw man argument.
It *is* the case that in this discussion a lot of straw men have been built--that is, many arguments have been of the form "I think A is bad because B, which is evidently bad, could happen", without any argument to connect A to B.
Or the argument "Why are you defending A, which is bad?" when noone was defending A (such as the Antonio Alvarado article).
These are both straw man arguments.