From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Mon Jun 16 2003 - 17:55:49 MDT
Hal had already written
> I would encourage everyone to try not to overstate and inflame the
> situation. If you want to make a complaint about excessive rhetoric,
> quote the words in question rather than trying to paraphrase them or
> offering a general characterization of the tone. The latter practices
> are far more fraught with error than most people realize.
and
> I encourage all parties to tone down the rhetoric and avoid making
> stronger claims about the actions of others than are justified by
> the facts.
So my appeal for cooler heads to prevail is greatly redundant.
(Though here---surely---a little redundancy is probably good!)
Also, remember my trick for turning an accusation into a question!
E.g.: "Why wouldn't this strike anyone as immoral?"
"That *sounds* anti-American to me---just why isn't it?"
"Do you know the definition of defamation? Aren't you
guilty of defaming X?"
The literal, text-based portions of our minds deal with questions
vastly better than they deal with accusations!
Lee
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