On Mar 22, 7:10*pm, George Plimpton > wrote:
> On 3/22/2012 10:35 AM, Rupert wrote:
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> > On Mar 22, 5:45 pm, George > *wrote:
> >> On 3/22/2012 9:29 AM, Rupert wrote:
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> >>> On 22 Mrz., 16:48, George > * *wrote:
> >>>> On 3/22/2012 8:37 AM, Rupert wrote:
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> >>>>>>>>>> I'm sure a lot of people think ****wit makes perfect sense, too.
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> >>>>>>>>> I find that rather unlikely.
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> >>>>>>>> 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.
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> >>>>>>>> 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.
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> >>>>>>> Do you have any evidence for this?
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> >>>>>> Yes, my personal acquaintances, as I already said - can't you ****ing read?
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> >>>>> Your personal acquaintances don't constitute any evidence that I
> >>>>> suffer from this defect.
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> >>>> 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.
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> >>> I do give talks about the ethics of the human use of animals,
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> >> You are unqualified for it.
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> > Well, as I say, I was offered the job, I didn't apply for it. At no
> > stage did I misrepresent my qualifications in any way. So the person
> > who offered me the job obviously has the idea that I'm qualified for
> > it. Furthermore he's frequently told me that he's received positive
> > feedback on the presentations that I give.
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> The fact that any unqualified goof could be offered a "job" to lecture
> on "animal rights" is an indication of the intellectual speciousness of
> the whole concept.

I am not "any unqualified goof". I was offered that job because a
friend of mine who has a PhD in ethics respected me as someone who is
knowledgeable about ethics. Your opinion on the matter is not very
important.