[WikiEN-l] Meet the Metz

[Daniel R. Tobias]

On Fri, 7 Dec 2007 11:18:42 -0800, "George Herbert" 
<george.herbert at gmail.com> wrote:

> Cade is clearly looking for and finding controversy.  The Register thrives
> on that.  The reality is rather different.  Rendering aid and comfort to
> people who behave sociopathically online is not in the best interests of the
> project.

However, it's a logical fallacy to go from there to where several 
admins seem to be on various related articles lately (e.g., [[Gary 
Weiss]]), where they're dismissing all concerns that are in any way 
related to those mentioned in that article, even when brought up by 
perfectly rational, non-sociopathic, non-banned editors.

If mapped out in outline, the line of argument seems to go:

1) Bagley claims that [list various claims of his, such as that the 
Weiss article is non-NPOV]
2) Bagley is a sociopathic, evil harasser.
3) Therefore, the claims in (1) are all false.
4) Thus, anybody who repeats the claims should be dismissed out of 
hand.

This does not follow logically.


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