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Politics : Foreign Policy Discussion Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (4013)	2/14/2003 3:32:43 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 15987

hawk, I smile at your use of my name. However I was simply using the logic of zonder to attempt to illustrate to zonder how it missed the mark. I there any real difference in calling someone stupid or a moron. All dialog is about rational or logical thinking or not so rational or logical thinking. Not so logical or rational thinking can be described as stupid thinking. If you put aside just the use of the word stupid and inserted an alternative acceptable word, did you see the use of my logic and reason about what is an ad hominem attack. Can't we laugh at ourselves. I really posted that in humor and not an insult. If I missed obvious points on an issue, I welcome being called stupid. However I will attempt to be less stupid in my use of stupid. But I am very stupid about understanding why stupid is found to be so insulting. In general, I find anyone who brings up ad hominem attacks quite amusing.... quite amusing is a code wording for the s word.....LOL... Now this would be more difficult to explains as a compliment. ONLY STUPID PEOPLE CANNOT SEE MY CLEAR LOGIC. :o) I wonder is a :0) considered an insult or is LOL considered an insult???