Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 00:45:59 -0500 (EST)
From: klo_mckinsey-AT-K12.MEC.OHIO.GOV
Subject: M-I: My Reply to Andrew



BACK THEN I SAID,

> > > If everyone like me left,
> > > who would be here to expose the errors of your ways.



TO WHICH ANDREW REPLIED,

> > There are plenty of people on this list eager to expose the errors of
> > others. Don't worry about that.



TO THAT I REPLIED,

>      You don't read very closely.  I said what happens if "everyone like
> me left" not just me alone. So, obviously if *everyone* like me left,
> there would be no one remaining to expose your errors.  Your comment is
> false.
     There wouldn't be anyone left to expose your errors with respect 
to Marxism-Leninism and the theoretical and practical contributions 
of Joe Stalin.



ANDREW NOW CONCLUDES WITH,

There is no one else like you on this channel. If you left you would not
be here anymore, and nothing would change except the volume of posts to
this list.

Want proof? Show of hands? Who here is like klo?

Andy



AND MY CONCLUDING REPLY IS,
     You say, "There is no one else like you on this channel."  How 
do you know?  Did you take a poll?  You are assuming you know 
how many are on this list, which you don't; you are assuming you 
know how they all feel, which you don't, and you are assuming you 
know what being "like me" entails, which you don't.  Judging from 
the number of ostersmany don't speak out at all.  They 
just read.
     You say, "If you left you would not be here anymore, and nothing 
would change except the volume of posts to this list."  That is not 
relevant to what I said.  I said, what would happen if everyone like 
me left.  And that would change the character of the list.  
     You say, "Want proof? Show of hands? Who here is like klo?"  
You seem to think that because no show of hands is possible,
 therefore the vote is in your favor.  Rather presumptuous, don't 
you think?




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