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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: Road Walker who wrote (13789)3/3/2010 12:21:03 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 42652
 
First Tim, it's really intellectually dishonest to partially edit my sentence to change it's meaning.

I did no such thing.

Doing that would be something like as if you said "Lots of rules have caused all sorts of problems, freedom is what made this country great", and I edited it to say "Lots of rules...have made this country great". That would be changing what you said, but I did nothing like that.

"Lots of rules have made this country great" is a statement all but itself, I didn't remove any part of that statement. Its also a statement that isn't modified by the other statements in the same sentence.

Ignoring the attack on me from the sentence, and taking the rest of it as a whole it would mean that BOTH "playing by the rules", and "lots of rules" have made the country great; or that "playing by lots of rules has made the country great". I read it as the first, and there is nothing dishonest about that even if you meant the 2nd, the 1st is a very reasonable reading of what you posted. If you didn't make yourself clear that's not my fault.

Also the 2nd isn't very different.

The first includes "lots of rules have made the country great" very directly. The 2nd basically says the same thing in a roundabout way. If playing by lots of rules has made the country great than having lots of rules is a necessary component.
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