Re: Ronnie Biggs will rot in jail....
Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2009 6:51 am
Reggie Perrin wrote:
> I studied Literature not language, don't you ever slip up then?
Of course; but then I don't boast about my educational credentials
as a substitute for rational argument : -)
> What qualifies you in your pap diagnosis of somebody
> you've never even met btw?
50 years' worth of life-experience, innate cynicism and ten years
counselling students. But your replies today cause me to doubt
my snap diagnosis- so I apologise unreservedly. But you need
perhaps to be less 'heated' in future debates. No-one, least of all
me, has a monopoly on the truth.
> My point was that
> regardless of the actual crime Biggs and Huntley will play the
> same option because they are both selfish, manipulative people.
True; they're both sociopaths- but there the similarity ends.
> I have to say that I won't be debating with you an JRP
You weren't debating- you were declaiming. I think that's what
irritated us so much. There is ALWAYS another POV; often a better
one, as I've learned to my frequent embarrassment.
> as I have said before on this forum I don't do cut and paste
> debating, it's a lazy way of expressing yourself. If you can't
> be bothered to express your ideas in a more articulate way then
> why should I really.
I was as articulate as I thought you could handle; IIRC I used few if
any quadrasyllabic words; and very little litotes, irony and empyrean
rhetoric.
> Nothing personal.
Really ? !!! You jest, Sir.
> I studied Literature not language, don't you ever slip up then?
Of course; but then I don't boast about my educational credentials
as a substitute for rational argument : -)
> What qualifies you in your pap diagnosis of somebody
> you've never even met btw?
50 years' worth of life-experience, innate cynicism and ten years
counselling students. But your replies today cause me to doubt
my snap diagnosis- so I apologise unreservedly. But you need
perhaps to be less 'heated' in future debates. No-one, least of all
me, has a monopoly on the truth.
> My point was that
> regardless of the actual crime Biggs and Huntley will play the
> same option because they are both selfish, manipulative people.
True; they're both sociopaths- but there the similarity ends.
> I have to say that I won't be debating with you an JRP
You weren't debating- you were declaiming. I think that's what
irritated us so much. There is ALWAYS another POV; often a better
one, as I've learned to my frequent embarrassment.
> as I have said before on this forum I don't do cut and paste
> debating, it's a lazy way of expressing yourself. If you can't
> be bothered to express your ideas in a more articulate way then
> why should I really.
I was as articulate as I thought you could handle; IIRC I used few if
any quadrasyllabic words; and very little litotes, irony and empyrean
rhetoric.
> Nothing personal.
Really ? !!! You jest, Sir.