Always put quotes around "vegan"
On 3/22/2012 9:29 AM, Rupert wrote:
> On 22 Mrz., 16:48, George > wrote:
>> On 3/22/2012 8:37 AM, Rupert wrote:
>>
>
>>>>>>>> I'm sure a lot of people think ****wit makes perfect sense, too.
>>
>>>>>>> I find that rather unlikely.
>>
>>>>>> You don't know the circle of people with whom ****wit associates.
>>>>>> ****wit has said that his associates find his bizarre, poorly founded
>>>>>> blabbering about philosophy and ethics to be very sensible. We know
>>>>>> already that ****wit's associates are as wretchedly uneducated as he is
>>>>>> - guys who have maintenance jobs in rural taverns or occasional work as
>>>>>> band roadies as ****wit has said he has don't tend to associate with
>>>>>> thinking people.
>>
>>>>>> I /do/ know the class of people with whom you associate, because
>>>>>> although I didn't complete my Ph.D., I was around those people for a
>>>>>> long time, and some people I know who did finish the program are still
>>>>>> friends and acquaintances. A very common defect I've noticed among
>>>>>> highly educated people is they think they're the smartest people in the
>>>>>> room on /everything/, not just in their field of expertise. You very
>>>>>> plainly suffer from this defect.
>>
>>>>> Do you have any evidence for this?
>>
>>>> Yes, my personal acquaintances, as I already said - can't you ****ing read?
>>
>>> Your personal acquaintances don't constitute any evidence that I
>>> suffer from this defect.
>>
>> Sorry, I thought you were asking how I know it happens at all. My
>> immediate in-person acquaintances do not, of course, comprise evidence
>> that you suffer from the defect. It is my experience of you in Usenet,
>> and my observation that you present yourself as knowing things outside
>> your field far better than others that demonstrates your defect. This
>> idea that you give "talks" (preaching to the choir) about the ethics of
>> human use of animals is very solid evidence.
>>
>
> I do give talks about the ethics of the human use of animals,
You are unqualified for it.
> I do not present myself as having more knowledge than I in fact have.
Bullshit.
>
>>>>>> Another is that they think they're all
>>>>>> Nietzschean supermen - the normal rules don't apply to them. You appear
>>>>>> to me to suffer somewhat less from this second defect than other Ph.D.s
>>>>>> of my acquaintance, but you do suffer from it.
>>
>>>>> No, I don't.
>>
>>>> Ha ha ha ha ha! Yes, you do.
>>
>> !!!!!
>>
>
> I did not value your opinion, or find your unargued expression of it
> interesting, so I ignored it.
Cute.
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