"Peter Hendra" wrote in message
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On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 13:04:55 -0500, "Wilbur Hubbard"
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"KLC Lewis" wrote in message
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"Wilbur Hubbard" wrote in message
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No, you are incorrect. There comes a point when any sane man cannot
let wack job nutcases have a say on an equal footing with the
factual
and the sensible.

Should that Islamic fascist, Ahmadenijad, who says the holocaust
never happened and that Israel should be wiped off the face of the
map, be given equal time with legitimate historians who don't deny
the holocaust? Hell no! People like that should be shouted down and
have rotten vegetable tossed in their faces. The more you let
people
spout their total nonsense on equal footing with reasonable
explanations the more you lend them credence. The more you lower
the
bar for the reasonable and the sensible. I believe in letting
everybody have their say. But, I also believe what people say
should
have consequences. If you say something stupid and obnoxious enough
then, if somebody after hearing you out decides to punch your right
in the nose, you learn real fast that actions have consequences and
talking crap might just get you crapped on. You've heard the old
saying that if you repeat a lie often enough it becomes accepted
fact? That's the trouble with allowing wack job conspiracists to
remain unchallenged. You MUST not only challenge their flaky ideas
but you must point out that they cannot think clearly either. You
must show their inferior intellects are not capable of rational
thought. In other words their ideas reveal their brain function.
Dumb, stupid conspiracy ideas = dumb, stupid conspiracy brain.

The widespread belief in human caused global warming is a good
example of what happens when you let a bunch of nutjobs spout their
nonsense ad nausea over a period of years without challenge. It
becomes a religion. A totally irrational religion based on belief
and
not on facts. That's why it's important not only to refute nonsense
but identify individuals who spout nonsense as fact as defective
mentally.

Wilbur Hubbard

So you endorse the initiation of physical violence against people
who
say things you find overtly offensive?


Yes! It's a time-honored tradition.

Wilbur Hubbard

Sounds like current American foreign policy to me.

Wait, Why doesn't one of you punch Mr Bush on the nose given this
logic? Every news item Ii see him on has him stating "weapons of mass
destruction" when they haven't found any and "War on terrorism in
Iraq" when Al Khaida and Sadam were sworn enemies and his terrorism
was aimed solely as his own citizens.


Some people say things that are offensive enough to inspire digital
tomato throwing while you, on the other hand, just repeat things that
are merely humorous in their decrepitude.

Wilbur Hubbard