Klarinet Archive - Posting 001014.txt from 1998/12

From: Lou Mallory <mallory@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Opinions and Arguments
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 18:10:43 -0500

12/27/98

Hi and Happy Holidays to all,

I agree that we need to be a community of enquiry but I don't believe that
ridicule or mockery has a place in this endeavor, even as a last resort. I
think ridicule and mockery often escalate the argument into personal attack
which is counterproductive. Thanks for listening.

Lou Mallory

Tony Pay wrote:

> I think the situation with disagreement here is rather too like
> hand-to-hand combat, with spectators. We need to be a community of
> enquiry more, and have people who see errors of reading and reasoning
> prepared to put their 10p in, so that the *argument* gets somewhere. To
> complain that the arguments don't get anywhere without engaging with
> them in detail isn't good enough, I submit.
>
> Then the admittedly unattractive last resort of mockery might never ever
> get to be used.
>
> Tony
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