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To: bluefish
Simply telling me that the city of Charleston has the right to pass a law against bikinis does not address my point. Is that absurd red herring to be taken as your rational approach to 'discussion'? If you think this is an issue over bikinis, I have no further reason to discuss this further with you.
43 posted on 04/26/2003 9:17:04 PM PDT by MHGinTN (If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote Life Support for others.)
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To: MHGinTN
Truly laughable and pathetic MHGinTN. I cannot let stand your final lame attempt to bow out by projecting your own failures in this debate onto me.

Is that absurd red herring to be taken as your rational approach to 'discussion'?

I addressed YOUR red herring and you turn around and suggest that I am using a red herring. Ludicrous! Look up the word, and then look at our exchange. I pointed out in my last post that your argument regarding the city's ability to pass a law (YOUR red herring effort to ignore my prior post about the legitemate use of government) has nothing to do with the real point. You ignored my argument with that silly insert. You haven't addressed my argument yet.

If you think this is an issue over bikinis...

You should truly be ashamed of yourself here. I made the point repeatedly, and in a variety of ways, that the big picture is not about bikinis and that you should temper your desire to send in the police state to end sunbathing.

You kept the focus of YOUR argument on morality. My suggestion to you was that your focus was on the wrong thing and that the bigger picture was the legitemate use of government. Your rebuttal was that the city can pass a law if it wants, your Red Herring which didn't address my point.

Rather than address the bigger issue I raised, you chose to accuse me of being morally depraved for not feeling that sunbathers were an important issue, having a need or desire for skin, being more debaucherous than Dems, being PC and whining about your whining about bikinis, etc.

The discussion is about your desire to use totalitarianism as a method to create a model society, and my assertion that it leads to just the opposite. You have continued to refuse to address the primary topic while instead choosing to presume the whole time what my moral status is or political leanings are.

For you, the discussion has continued to be about bikinis.

Don't project your own failings onto me, and don't dismiss the discussion by accusing me of engaging in the very tactics you have attempted to employ. That is what Dems do when their arguments fail.

45 posted on 04/26/2003 10:57:54 PM PDT by bluefish
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