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"Are you presenting this as an argument with my article? I am confused, as you seem to be arguing most of the time with other people's words and not my own." Y
by rick888 16y ago
"Are you presenting this as an argument with my article? I am confused, as you seem to be arguing most of the time with other people's words and not my own."
You seem to like to add other people's words in your article as to convey a certain message. When I argue against that message, you tell me that you are confused.
If you don't want anything to do with the thoughts you quoted, why put them there at all? You should stand by your opinions.
"Is exploitation incompatible with freedom? You seem to be saying that exploitation does not exist since people appear to have choices."
No. Some people are truly exploited. You laid it out there as a blanked statement. As if everyone is exploited in the current system.
- raganwald 16y agoI think you have certain ideas. I'm fine with your opinions just as they are, I honour you for that. However, in an essay where I start by saying that I'm erroneous in describing myself as a Socialist and end by saying that I'm a socialist for sufficiently libertarian values of socialism, what are we to make of my quoting a generic definition of Big S Socialism in the middle? I stated what I believe quite clearly. What I suggest you do is carry on arguing against Big S Socialism. Nothing wrong with disputing it. And if you like, you can say things like "Reginald quotes Wikipedia as saying that Socialism is ____. This is clearly a bad idea because _____." Now as to "standing by my opinions," ask your friends in the neighborhood about me. They will tell you I have no problem standing by my opinions, even when they are unpopular. But I should make something perfectly clear: This essay describes what I like. At no time do I claim that you or anybody else will be better off if things go this way or that way, just that I will like it. So really, there is very little value to your trying to persuade me that the world will be worse off if Health Care is nationalized or what-not. I am not writing an essay about how to make the world a better place, just about how to make my world a better place. I believe the best you can do to oppose my views is to convince me that I personally wouldn't like working on small, self-organizing software teams. Have at it.