"Sleepyhead" > wrote
> Hmm. Well if those posts are anything to go by it seems I've misjudged
> you ... serves me right for butting-in I guess!

You didn't misjudge him, you had him dead to rights.

> So basically what you're saying is that at the very least Dutch is
> confused, at worst he's deliberately adopting stances to suit his
> audience. Well can't say I disapprove terribly - I'm a bugger for
> changing my mind too - but I can see why you'd get fed-up conversing
> with someone like that if you were after a long-running and detailed
> set of arguments about animal-rights et al.

Don't be persuaded by Derek's spinology. There is a rational explanation for
every quote. I don't bother to refute them any more because everyone who
knows Derek and I knows it already.