I take your point, Lawrence, but this looks rather like ad hominem attack -
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On 23/5/05 11:16 PM, "Lawrence Upton" <[log in to unmask]>
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> I would taken the point, without the need to offer, about the delete button if
> it were relevant. It has become relevant with an answer like this and its
> "this particular polemical situation shows promise"
>
> What fun we all shall have
>
> You probably think the news is about you
>
> My question was trying to understand your coyness, while I tried to suppress
> my revulsion at seemed self-satisfaction
>
> These matters are far more serious than a game and it isn't just Galloway's
> moral credentials that are bogus; as it isnt just Hitchens who begs questions
>
> I recall the chaplain in Catch 22 identifying the real problem as the _immoral
> logic_ of those whose self-regard was leading to pointless death
>
> How you get from me accusing you of self-satisfaction and vanity to that
> message, I don't know.
>
> Perhaps I set *you off with my immoral logic quote. Is that it? Not me, not
> good old Aarfy
>
> Irresponsible as you are, I shall not say more. I can't stop you and you are
> insulated so I shall just persevere
>
Alison Croggon
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