[Foundation-l] Reflections on the recent debates

[Mike Godwin]

On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> > Wow. Even worse metaphor! "All the riches that are demanded"!
>
> Perhaps, but yours is no better. When you attack a village it is
> because you want something they have (riches, land, women) or you just
> want revenge for something. FOX don't want anything we have and they
> don't really dislike us (sure, they would rather people went to them
> for knowledge than us, but that isn't really what this is about). They
> are attacking us simply because it makes exciting news and makes them
> more money. That is a completely different motive to an attack on a
> village so a defence based on a metaphor of an attack on a village is
> bound to fail.
>

All metaphors are at least somewhat misleading, and some metaphors are
deeply misleading. But I'll do my best to avoid bad metaphors in the future
if Andre will join me in doing so.


--Mike