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To: orionblamblam
"My God you're dull and repetative and not at all clever, and I'm bored debating with you."

Yes, but then we'd get a whole list of laws for dealing with a never-ending list of dumb debate tactics. And invoking one of them would only bewilder your opponent. It's much easier, at least for me, to recognize that when a poster makes an ignorant claim like: "There's no evidence for evolution," and I give him some links pointing him to some information to help him out, only to be told: "I can't wait 'til you stand in judgment and learn how wrong you are!" I just have to accept that I'm dealing with an incurable ignoramus. At that point I break off the conversation. He's happy in his righteousness, and I'm happy to stop wasting time.

250 posted on 05/06/2004 4:56:34 PM PDT by PatrickHenry (A compassionate evolutionist!)
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To: PatrickHenry
> At that point I break off the conversation.

See, there, ya go, being all reasonable...

Anyway, what I was suggesting was that invoking that law would indicate termination of discussion. But that is, I imagine, a bit vainglorious. Almost as bad as claiming to know that the reason why people don't believe as I do is because they're rebelling...
251 posted on 05/06/2004 5:01:29 PM PDT by orionblamblam
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