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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rainy_Day_Woman who wrote (19067)	3/11/2003 12:13:24 PM
From: thames_sider	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25898

If she did have family there, I'd personally say that greatly strengthens her arguments... as it means she, unlike any of us, has something at risk from this (beyond any stocks which are still above $0). But it doesn't affect the arguments she uses, evenb while it might weight her to one side. We're all biassed here, after all, that's the point of a debating board. The 'why' isn't important; although I agree if someone stands to personally gain or lose, I'd be interested, I have no 'right' to know this - and it doesn't affect in any way the validity or otherwise of what she's said. If she were saying "As a citizen of xxxx I feel specially qualified to answer because..." then it might be relevant- but she isn't. BTW, Monaco is sufficiently small that if she's from an uncommon nationality there it would probably not be hard to identify her for anyone obsessive enough. I've seen this done before. It really isn't pretty or necessary. And as she says, maybe she'd just rather ignore the ad hominem attacks... So why not honour her wishes? They're harmless to all of us, and irrelevant to the point of the board.