>From: "Zero Powers" <zero_powers@hotmail.com>
>As to the need for such cartoons, suit yourself. As for the words
>you seem to be trying to put in my mouth, I never said, or
>suggested, any such thing.
>Only if you can turn down the posturing and the rhetoric and turn
>up the facts and a *reasonable* debate.
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>From: "Zero Powers" <zero_powers@hotmail.com>
>Political satire is long recognized as a valuable tool in the
>social tool kit. However I don't think there is any danger of
>cartoons preventing rational discourse among those who prefer to
>seek it out.
>I politely disagree. A statement of fact, no matter how blunt, is
>neither pejorative nor inconducive to polite disagreement.If I had
>called the NRA and its sympathizers "violent antisocial irrational
>paranoid maniacs," *that* would be pejorative. If my quoted
>phrase offends your sensibilities, I would suggest that you are
>ill prepared to engage in any passionate debate.
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First you call for a reasonable debate, then in your next message
you do a 180 and call for a passionate debate.
You make an incorrect statement about the NRA, in fact nothing more
than personnal opinion, and insist it is fact.
>I like dreams of the future better than the history of the past"
>--Thomas Jefferson
"A country that wants to be unarmed and free, wants what never has
been and never will be. --Thomas Jefferson
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