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Quoting ARLO J BENSINGER JR <ajb102 at psu.edu>:

> [Platt]
> I didn't answer stupid questions.
> 
> [Arlo]
> Why is this a stupid question? Again, I ask, what if she had said "the only
> reason the republicans had nominated McCain is that he is a white man"? What
> would your response have been? Would you have considered this remark  "racist"? 
> 
> It doesn't surprise me that you won't answer it, of course.
> 
> [Platt]
> Social considerations which apparently you happily ignore when it suits your
> convenience. Shameful.
> 
> [Arlo]
> Such as? Let's have some examples here.  I can logically defend all my
> positions, something I have no qualms doing. I don't have to resort on deceit
> and evasion to skirt hypocrisy as you do.
> 
> [Platt]
> So you refuse to answer my question. 
> 
> [Arlo]
> Which question was that, whether or not I "won't pay for those who are
> dedicated to defending your country from its enemies and willing to give up
> their lives to do so? Sure sounds like it. "
> 
> Sure I will. Happily. I have many friends who are serving, mostly marine corps.
> But my question stands, why is it moral for you to force me to pay for a war I
> may not believe in? Why is it moral for you to use the guns of government to
> steal my income to fund your war? Is it out of arrogance? 
> 
> You talk so much about how it is so immoral for government to "redistribute
> wealth", a topic YOU interjected again here, let me remind you, when you
> avoided my questions and instead offered some idiotic talk-radio rubbish. But
> you seem perfectly happy to steal my wealth when it suits your purposes, don't
> you? 
> 
> But let's get back to the topic at hand...
> 
> [Arlo had asked]
> Hmm. So passing a law to prohibit others from invading my home with a "smell"
> is "stupid". But passing such a law to prohibit others from invading my home
> with a "sound" is "sane"? What's the distinction?
> 
> [Platt]
> If you don't know ask the people who passed muffler laws. 
> 
> [Arlo]
> I'm asking you, since you say one is "stupid" and the other "not". Or is this
> just another case of talk-radio evasion because you can't defend your own
> moronic assertions? I mean, its blazingly evident why you won't answer.
> 
> [Platt]
> So your answer is, "That's just the way it goes." Wow. Let's all etch that baby
> in stone for posterity. 
> 
> [Arlo]
> You disagree with my premise that balancing freedom and social responsibility,
> in this case the amount of noise my tailpipes can make, will not leave some on
> either side unhappy? What solution do you propose that will make everyone
> happy? 
> 
> [Arlo had asked]
> So once again I've done my best to avoid your talk-radio idiocy. Will you
> return that by answering my questions? Or will it just be more of the same?
> 
> [Platt]
> My answer is "That's just the way it goes."  I've learned that from the master
> of double-talk and smoke-blowing. 
> 
> [Arlo]
> Ah, you mean Limbaugh. Yes, I know you get your tactics from him. What's funny
> is that you mean to paint me as "double-talk" and yet in seven posts I've done
> nothing but ask direct questions to which the only replies have been moronic
> evasions, deceitful rhetoric and the usual talk-radio rubbish. What double-talk
> have I given? What "smoke blowing" have I done? Can you give some examples? 
> 
> No, you can't. But it's another good Pee-Wee. And since the score is now
> Dialogue 0, Moronic Talk-Radio Rubbish 7, I happily bow out. You've already
> proven again that all you offer are ridiculous (and hypocritic) one-liners, and
> when challenged can only offer the moronic rhetoric of talk-radio. Kudos!

This must be the umpteenth time you've promised to bow out, but you never do.
Even though you demand answers to nonsense questions and consider a dialog a
personal battle where participants keep score, one can only hope you can at least
keep your promises. But that would be expecting too much I know.  




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