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Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 2:12 PM
Subject: Re: E-M:/ Trash-O-Meter
Will the real Mike Csapo please stand up?
His actual Post states things like: "What's wrong with demagoguery?"
Have you ever read, oh I don't know... Plato?
Start there and work your way through to 21st century political theory
literature." "... a rational response, if any from
the likes of the MEC." "The response from {name
of defamed individual deleted} ...was, to paraphrase, "we don't care."
Sort of a "don't bother me with the facts" response." "We'd rather see a
more scholarly approach taken to public policy but perhaps that's too much to
expect from folks who see nothing wrong with a little
demagoguery."
What he now claims was the mild, reasonable, sole point
of his message: "Its interesting that I simply pointed out
that many of us feel the trash-o-meter is an exercise in
demagoguery."
I guess the actual statements were in
fact "indefensible," since their maker is so eager to deny them and
offers no real defense...
Cut the whining. The idea that you wouldn't expect to
get the kinds of sarcastic and hostile responses you so richly deserved is
absurd. If you want reasoned and polite debate, confine yourself to that
mode. Or, as I was taught that an oft-cited, little-followed religious
tradition teaches: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."
Wait, that could be the death of the whole corporate trash industry, that
grows & profits by externalizing the environmental costs and consequences
of industry, thru lucrative licensing procedures that impose their operations
on host(age) communities... arghh!
Tom Stephens
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