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Peace: (Was Jeff Williams and his fantasies)



At 01:40 PM 10/4/97 -0700, Darrell Greenwood wrote:
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>Date:         Fri, 26 Sep 1997 19:44:02 -0700
>Reply-To: Kent Crispin <kent@SONGBIRD.COM>
>Sender: Owner-Domain-Policy <owner-domain-policy@internic.net>
>From: Kent Crispin <kent@SONGBIRD.COM>
>Subject:      Re: Trademark Disputes
>To: DOMAIN-POLICY@LISTS.INTERNIC.NET
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>You argue that who you are doesn't matter; that your opinions should
>stand on their own.  That's a theory that doesn't hold in practice.
>People always correlate opinions with characteristics of those who
>hold those opinions -- this is an automatic psychological process.

We can do without the flame wars carrying over and carrying on.  We can
also do without logical fallacies.  I believe this one is call "ad homonym"
[or something very close].  There's another evil one called "argument from
authority".  Let's agree to forego that one too.

Peace,
Rob DuWors

P.S. My favorite which I assert at all times is - "never trust anyone with
a beard - why look at it me!"  ;-)  Right Kent...  [Or how about "never
trust the UNIX generation"]  :-)

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