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2/09/2003 07:13:00 PM | Jared Alessandroni If you're going to comment On a post, you should read it. I said, [paraphrasing] that you can't assign some chimerical inherent desire for space travel to humanity in response to an unfounded statement that you made to the contrary. Then I said - you half-quoted again as apparently actual quoting would be too hard for your argument - that "I think there's a lot more that's noble..." etc. Just like Pyrrhic and your ridiculous repitition of the phrase ad hominim, the word "cockshure" [sic - it's hyphenated] are archaic and sound ridiculous and contrived coming from you, but, it's really ridiculous to call any phrase "cock-shure" that begins with I think. And that's more than a typo. Anyway, no, namby-pamby [another silly word] refers to simple and sentimental; saying that there are more noble things than the sheer thrill of new discoveries [itself a sentimental and childish thing] can't in its saying be namby-pamby, nor can any sweeping generalization. Anyway, that's a semantic point, but an argument that we develop our interests as part of our life-experiences - that they are not in-born - is only relativistic if you're bitterly trying to make a point about your own interests, pin those interests on others, and in doing so ignore basic scientific and logical arguments. Otherwise, it's just fact, cock-shure or not. perma link |
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