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(G*rd*n) wrote in message >...
> > > > > > ...
>
> I.
> (G*rd*n) wrote:
> >>>>>>>> If you knew any business owners you might be disappointed
> >>>>>>>> at the degree to which they resemble the rest of their
> >>>>>>>> fellow citizens.
>
> II.
> :
> >>>>>>> I am a business owner.
>
> III.
> "G*rd*n" >
> >>>>>> So are the guys who pick up deposit cans out of the gutter.
>
> IV.
> "zztop8970" >:
> >>>> So is it your contention that the guys who pick up deposit cans out of the
> >>>> gutter do not resemble your fellow citizens who do not pick up deposit cans
> >>>> out of the gutter ?
>
> (G*rd*n):
> > > >> Not at all.
>
> (zztop8970-):
> > > > Then your previous post seems like a non-sequitur.
> > > > ...
>
> (G*rd*n):
> > > It does, doesn't it?
>
> "zztop8970" >:
> > Do you have a point, then? Are business owners like other citizens, or are
> > they not?
>
>
> Let's review. In (I.) I suggest to wrjames (apropos of prior
> discussion) that he doesn't know something about business
> owners ("If you knew...." is a contrary-to-fact subjunctive
> construction) and that if he did he might have different
> opinions.
>
> In (II.) wrjames states that he is a business owner. This is
> a non-sequitur, as I pointed out previously for the case of
> rocks. He may have meant to add, "and I know something about
> myself",

He did not need to add that, as it goes without saying and only a
lunatic or a clown would even think to dispute it.