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- From: smezias@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU (Stephen J. Mezias)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: PHoney's primer on the tools of pro-force communication.
- Keywords: shown, proven, connotations
- Message-ID: <35996@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 01:20:12 GMT
- References: <nyikos.728156821@milo.math.scarolina.edu>
- Organization: NYU Stern School of Business
- Lines: 63
-
- In article <nyikos.728156821@milo.math.scarolina.edu>
- nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos) writes the usual
- incomprehensible stew. However, there are passages that are so
- precious that I decided to pull them. They form a primer of pro-force
- communication. Anyone who follows these rules can produce an
- incomprehensible argument in favor of forced pregnancy:
-
- (1) Discuss how the posting software has been an obstacle for you:
-
- >A few days ago I started a thread, "The ball's in your court, Larry"
- >involving a post which apparently defaulted to the local net a long time
- >ago, and of which I sent him a copy about a week ago.
-
- (2) Discuss how you made all sorts of assumptions, which you claim
- were reasonable, but somehow did not hold true. Perhaps most
- importantly you also have to claim that this *actually* ended up
- helping you.
-
- > I expected Larry
- >to fix up that post with some additions of his own, addressing the issues
- >in the post, just as he "posted something for me" a while back, but adding
- >lots of comments of his own, and what looked like a tangle of barbed
- >wire in the left hand margin. Come to think of it, it's probably just
- >as well he did not do that, and I get to post it in more or less its
- >original form.
-
- (3) Use parentheses and square brackets to confuse your message
- completely:
-
- >The post is germane to a number of minor altercations I have had with
- >Larry (and even with Mark Cochran) this past month. Larry accused me
- >of having lied about him, and this post contains one of the two cases known
- >to me where he accused me of lying with the evidence there next to his
- >accusation. [There may have been others.] The other case has been cleared
- >up already: I accused him of making selective deletions, he said I was
- >lying, I pointed out what I considered to be a selective deletion, and then
- >Larry let me know that he had a very selective definition of "selective
- >deletion" which allowed him to accuse me of an untruth (though hardly a
- >lie) with impunity in this case. [He also uses a definition of "lie" that
- >makes it synonymous with "untruth".]
-
- (4) Insult those pro-choice people who have been foolish enought to
- try to engage in dialog with you:
-
- >Anyway, here too [below] we have a case of me interpreting his words
- >one way, him interpreting them another, and him at least *appearing* to
- >accuse me of lying [you can't always tell with Larry] as a result.
- >
- >Also, Mark Cochran has accused me of being condescending towards people,
- >in that I used words to the effect, "Now, come on, Son." In this post appear
- >THREE of the FIVE such expressions I recall using in the last SIX months,
- >and I will let readers judge how justified I was in using them.
-
- (5) Most importantly, bore them to death with endless reproduction of
- previous posts and pro-force rants:
-
- >Here we go:
-
- 119 lines deleted.
-
- >Peter Nyikos
-
- SJM
-