[extropy-chat] The Consensus :Expressio unius est exclusioalterius

[David Lubkin]

Mike:

 > Only to instruct statist idiots to keep their hands off.

Olga:

 > Mike, why do you need to sound so threatening and resort to name calling?
 > (makes me wonder if you think *all* statists are idiots as your words seem
 > to imply, even though it is mainly Republicans

Greg:

>Are you somehow implying that Republicans *AREN'T* statists?  (Anyway, I 
>agree it's best to try to use cooler language when one is addressing hot 
>issues, as I've said a zillion times before.)

Mike referred to all X such that X is statist and X is an idiot.  He did 
not say that "X is statist" implies "X is an idiot."  This may be 
true.  However, Mike didn't say it.

He also said nothing about Republicans.

Olga, Mike gets into enough trouble for what he actually says.  He doesn't 
need any help.

That said, I agree that Republicans are de facto statists, whatever their 
rhetoric may otherwise suggest.

>Greg Burch <-------- armed to the teeth

Doesn't that make it hard to chew?


-- David Lubkin.