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- From: rescorla@rtnmr.chem.yale.edu (Eric Rescorla)
- Subject: Re: Male Choice Revi (1)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.171727.5848@cs.yale.edu>
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- References: <1992Nov21.194234.14911@rotag.mi.org> <1992Nov22.001904.27701@cs.yale.edu> <1992Nov22.143315.19418@rotag.mi.org>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 17:17:27 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov22.143315.19418@rotag.mi.org> kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov22.001904.27701@cs.yale.edu> rescorla@rtnmr.chem.yale.edu (Eric Rescorla) writes:
- >>In article <1992Nov21.194234.14911@rotag.mi.org> kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy) writes:
- >>>In article <1992Nov21.015024.17310@cs.yale.edu> rescorla@rtnmr.chem.yale.edu (Eric Rescorla) writes:
- >>>>In article <By0uut.F7@cs.psu.edu> beaver@castor.cs.psu.edu (Don Beaver) writes:
- >>>>>I posted Adrienne's paragraph (above) for that reason.
- >>>>>Adrienne made an explicit claim about me that is untrue.
- >>>>>That's something I call a lie.
- >>>>It's not what I call a lie. I'm prepared to grant that it is not descriptive
- >>>>of you, but you need to show that she knew it to be untrue for it
- >>>>to be a lie.
- >>>Are you saying that all lies must be deliberate, Eric? You have a narrower
- >>>definition than I do -- I'd count something as a non-deliberate lie if it
- >>>evidenced a reckless disregard for the truth.
- >>Yes, well I would suggest that we have different standards, then.
- >If I accused you, right here and now, of raping kittens for fun, would you
- >consider that a "lie", Eric? After all, I don't know that you DON'T, so you
- >couldn't say I was _deliberately_ speaking an untruth.
- Agreed. Substitute believe for know. In my original statement.
-
- >She said "we've just seen Steve Kellmeyer [...] come out of the closet on this
- >issue", implying that he both a) supported child support reform, and b) has
- >recently exposed his pro-life agenda. Truth is, he doesn't support child
- >support reform, and he's never made a secret of his pro-life agenda. Adrienne
- >knows this, or SHOULD know this, given all of the Kellmeyer crap that's been
- >posted here. The statement illustrates "reckless disregard for truth".
- It's certainly untrue. I'm not going to judge whether it's reckless or
- not.
-
- -Ekr
-
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