From: Xela@yabbs
To: arachnoi@yabbs
Subject: Tough being born mongoloid?
Date: Tue Jun 14 14:56:25 1994

...and quit digressing with insults {having a problem making a consistent 
stand?}

Not at all.  You are ignorant, smug, and arrogant.  You cannot make a 
logical argument to save your skin.  You are a challenge to me.  All of 
these are facts, not insults.  If they were meant to be insulting, they 
wouldn't be true.

{Word?  There were several mispellings in that sentence alone...}

List them.  I'll check.

{...Most of the post was riddle with poor grammar and spelling mistakes.}

Then we'll have an independent party check my messages and your messages.  
In the end it will be clear who is more adapt at writing a coherent 
sentence; you'd lose simply on your appalling spelling, not to mention 
your frequent misuse of tempus and contractions.

{...U still fail to follow through on your argument, and think what 
implications it has.}

Man, I've been writing about the philosophy of freedom for a couple years 
now.  In the process I've aquired numerous texts, and I've had several 
experiences with power structures.  If I fail to follow through on an 
argument, at least I am qualified enough to say that I have one and can 
defend it.

You, on the other hand, have no argument.  Simply put, you throw insults 
and expect people to take you seriously.  Step back for a moment and look 
at the both of us.  Which one would you, honestly, think have more 
credibility?

{...What U say is far more important than how long it takes, or how you 
say it.}

Absolutely wrong.  What you say can only be taken seriously when you say 
it well.  Would Hitler have gotten as far as he did, had he not been as 
eloquent as he was?  This is not to say that I aspire to be Hitler, but to 
make the point that people listened to him because what he said was well 
planned and executed.

{...Who said anything about your political affiliation?...}

You did.

{...This was a rhetorical statement of your mindset.}

Bullshit.  Stop trying to weasel your way out of what you said.

{...Act anal retentive like the "Young Republican" crowd and we will start 
calling u Skippy}

We?  You mean there are more of you?  Damn, if you're going to start 
calling me Skippy, I guess I'd better give up!

{...Like wise, if u can't muster the competence of a teenie bopper, then 
emotionally I guess you still are one.}

Well, for someone who thinks calling me Skippy affects me, you have a lot 
of nerve calling me immature.  

{As usual you're being sloppy.  Go back and read the original post, and 
try to concentrate this time.}

You claimed that capitalism encourages more freedom than communism.  So 
then you claim that levels of freedom exist.  Then you say that those 
levels are a constant which has no bearing on this argument, because they 
all factor out.  Therefore that"constant" is equal throughout all systems 
which regulate levels of freedom, otherwise it wouldn't factor out.  
Therefore, the levels of freedom for both capitalism and communism are 
equal, and both have the same "level of freedom."  You just contradicted 
yourself.

"There are NO govts. of social/economic systems that 'qualify as 
encouraging, or even allowing, freedom.'..."

                     ^^^^^^^^
But then you say:

{There are only degrees.}

You agreed with my claim that govts., social and economic interactions do 
not allow for freedom.  Then you say there are degrees.  Again you 
contradict yourself.

{here's the root of your inability to think logically...}

Excuse me?

{Everything here is a direct consequence of what you thought was 
important.  Yet U can't put it together.}

I just did.

"Until then, you have some homework to do. {your right there}"
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Contractions.  Review them before you come back.