Re: mechanics of surprise

In article <20070305201313.R81744@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, John Morrow wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Neelakantan Krishnaswami wrote:
>> You just compared me to a racist.
> 
> No.  I compared your argument to an argument used by racists.  Not the 
> same thing.
>
> This seems like a good example of the inability to seperate criticism of

> an arguments with criticism of the person making it.

John, you have every metaphor in the English language at your
disposal.

You decided, in particular, to choose a comparison to people who fed
human beings to wild dogs, attached electrodes to dissidents' nipples,
imprisoned democratic activists for decades without trial, and
deprived millions of people of running water, electricity, health
care, and education as a matter of state policy.

That's part of the connotation of your words, and you know it. If you
really wanted to make a criticism without that connotation you could
have, because you have every metaphor in the English language at your
disposal.

You didn't.

Apparently, you decided I was working from "Forge talking points", and
that it was okay to go nuclear. Guess what? You succeeded. Your
hostility has made talking about gaming here no longer fun for me, and
so I'm going to stop reading or posting.

May you one day overcome your anger, and in the meantime have fun
gaming.


-- 
Neel R. Krishnaswami
neelk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]