[Vision2020] Pot calling kettle..

Carl Westberg carlwestberg846 at hotmail.com
Wed Mar 2 07:18:33 PST 2005


Donovan, check your post called "The End", posted Thursday, February 17th at 
00:50:10 PST 2005.  It's quite lengthy, it's about halfway through the post. 
  And you are right, you didn't say you're so stupid, you did indeed say 
"you are so stupid".  Mea culpa.                                             
                                                                             
                                                                             
                                                                             
    Carl Westberg Jr.

>From: "Donovan Arnold" <donovanarnold at hotmail.com>
>To: carlwestberg846 at hotmail.com, vision2020 at moscow.com
>Subject: RE: [Vision2020] Pot calling kettle..
>Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 22:38:55 -0800
>
>Carl,
>
>I have rechecked my posts for 2005. I find nothing where I said "you're so 
>stupid". Perhaps you can enlighten me with a link.
>
>However, I don't find that so unbelievable considering some of the the 
>people that post on here.
>
>If I did say "you're" instead of you are, I would find that so appalling. I 
>almost never us contractions, I despise contractions.   In terms of not 
>ever personally attacking a person, one can only hope to live up to that 
>level expectation and self discipline. But I have never used it as a long 
>term strategy for winning an argument as I meant it to be when I said 
>"Attack the argument, not the person making it." Some people, well really, 
>all people need to pointed out their errors so they can better themselves. 
>However, if I am arguing that people who are gay or lesbian should be 
>allowed equal opportunity in a community, and someone points to the Bible 
>and says, "Leviticus chapter something verse whatever says 'blah blah, 
>blah'", I should counter their argument with logic, not their hair style, 
>because what if another person with a different hair style makes the same 
>argument? That is what I meant by attack the argument not the person. I 
>meant it not as a moral imperative, but a long term viable political 
>strategy.
>
>Take Care,
>
>Donovan J Arnold
>
>>From: "Carl Westberg" <carlwestberg846 at hotmail.com>
>>To: vision2020 at moscow.com
>>Subject: [Vision2020] Pot calling kettle..
>>Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 11:30:35 -0800
>>
>>Donovan Arnold writes (logically):  "Attack the argument, not the person 
>>making it."  Indeed.  Was it your doppelganger, Donovan, that wrote of 
>>another V2020 poster last week:  "You're so stupid that".....?             
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>>                                   Carl Westberg Jr.
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