Re: Protection for casual rider

On Thu, 15 Jun 2006, joemarshall <> wrote:

In order to save some time replying to Ian I offer you all a fantastic
summary of the argument that you're about to have and to save Ian some
time writing rude responses to everyone.

http://tinyurl.com/hz8pt

Actually Joe, you may remember you recently said I've been calling
people stupid, and I asked for you to substantiate that claim. I
haven't yet seen any evidence of that. Are you going to show where
I've called anyone stupid?

The reason I ask, you see, is that the summary you highlighted
includes the observation that certain people, rather than address the
points at hand, choose to make baseless accustaions about what others
have said. They might, for example, accuse someone of calling people
stupid. If the person so accused has not in fact done any such thing,
slandering them like that is not very productive. If, of course, they
have said such a thing, it would be easy to simply post the reference,
and everyone will see the truth.

The summary makes the fundamental mistake of assuming that no-one
really cares about the truth. It implies that if someone lies about
you, hey, doesn't matter. If they claim you said black is white -
doesn't matter. Unfortunately, I disagree - I think making false
accusations about what others have said is actually of critical
importance.

Surely you can trivially show where I've said what you claim.

regards, Ian SMith
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