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To: Oberon

Troll.

Name calling now there's an effective way to advance a viewpoint and foster reasonable discussion.

Did you major in forensics?


129 posted on 02/07/2005 12:23:05 PM PST by Smartaleck (Tom Delay TX ..."Dems have no ideas, no agenda, no solutions.")
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To: Smartaleck
Did you major in forensics?

Name-calling has its uses; categorization enables us to distinguish, for example, a debater (one who is interested in exchanging points of view on a topic, in order to develop a better-informed point of view on that topic) and a troll (one who does not engage in debate, but who pretends to in order to mock debaters).

Your wilful determination to claim that I am unable to defend my point of view when I have pointed out that I am actually unwilling to do so, when so many others have already made my point so fully and so well, puts you firmly in the troll class. Unless and until you try reading up on the topic of public education, I really have no time for you.

Good day.

133 posted on 02/07/2005 12:29:29 PM PST by Oberon (What does it take to make government shrink?)
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