Wasted time and effort

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CE Wood

Wasted time and effort

Legg inn av CE Wood » 19 jul 2005 03:33:57

The sheer volume of invective and the energy to sustain these diatribes
boggles the mind!

Just IMAGINE if the same effort was applied to research and the
presentation of incontrovertible proof or an overwhelming amount of
reliable documentation....

Reputations based on solid research cannot be damaged by insults.

REAL debate NEVER resorts to personal attack, which is the last resort
of those with no reasoned/researched counter-argument.

Contradictory presentations stand or fall by the own weight. Impugning
the character of an opponent merely exposes the lack of
professionalism.


CE Wood

Peter Stewart

Re: Wasted time and effort

Legg inn av Peter Stewart » 19 jul 2005 06:22:32

CE Wood wrote:

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REAL debate NEVER resorts to personal attack, which is the last
resort of those with no reasoned/researched counter-argument.

This hasn't been a "real" debate - it was the most bogus I can remember
for quite some time, apart from rhetorical junk threads involving
Hines.

However, when the excrescence of personality causes a problem, why
would not a reasoned counter-attack go straight to this? The
alternative is to disregard the offender/s, and that plays right into
the hands of people who set out to misrepresent others for their own
shoddy ends.

If someone had replied to your message saying you are a "fraud and
charlatan", "bobbing and weaving", etc, would you offer them the
apparent consent of silence? Always? Reasonably?

Peter Stewart

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