Date: Fri, 07 Mar 1997 09:15:21 +0000 From: ccw94-AT-aber.ac.uk (Colin Wight) Subject: Re: Megill (was: A Preface to Transgression) >Doug, I have, over my long inhabitance of the Internet, learned to refrain >from discussions in which my interlocutor puts me in a position where >everything I say will just furnish further proof of supposed undergraduateness, >immaturity, brainwashedness, going with fashion, and so on. This is a trap >out of which there is no way. When I was younger, I didn't see it like that. >Ah, youth! Where has it gone? Sorry, can't resist. The implication in this that the writer has seen the light, undergone the radical religous conversion and is now just too far above Doug's points to deem them worthy of refutation. Instead of viewing the questions as traps, I'll like to see them grappled and refuted or whatever, what I doubt is that it will happen and for reasons nothing to do with traps but more to do with the inability to grapple with them without regressing into an extreme form of theory/practice inconsistency. This post represents a barely concealed retreat under the "guys" of I'm above this. (Also, there is an inherent ageism which is barely concealed. The older the wiser I suppose.) > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- Colin Wight Department of International Politics University of Wales, Aberystwyth Aberystwyth SY23 3DA --------------------------------------------------------
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