Re: Stephen Grossman

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From: Alan Smaill
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 03:51

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In article <TORKEL.93Jan21205323@bast.sics.se> torkel@sics.se (Torkel Franzen) writes:

   In article <1993Jan21.183010.22929@ulrik.uio.no> solan@smaug.uio.no 
   (Svein Olav G. Nyberg) writes:

      >and will like Voltaire defend even his right to be met by proper
      >argument, and not simply abusive language.

     I haven't noticed Voltaire saying anything about Grossman. But you are
   a bit hasty, surely, in speaking of his "right to be met by proper
   argument". Why do suppose that we have a right to be met by "proper
   argument" (whatever this term may mean to you), whatever abusive twaddle
   we spout on the net ourselves?

Hmm, how does this go:

it is right that I am met with abusive twaddle:
therefore I have a right to be met with abusive twaddle.

(Did I get that right?)

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From: smaill@aisb.ed.ac.uk (Alan Smaill)
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Subject: Re: Stephen Grossman
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