[ExI] Farmville for real

Rafal Smigrodzki rafal.smigrodzki at gmail.com
Thu May 12 03:08:20 UTC 2011


On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Richard Loosemore <rpwl at lightlink.com> wrote:
> Rafal Smigrodzki wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Richard Loosemore <rpwl at lightlink.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> semi-slave workers
>>
>> ### People who run through the desert, risking being attacked by
>> coyotes, border police, crazy anti-immigrant vigilantes, and common
>> thugs, only to enthusiastically deliver themselves into slavery?
>>
>> Either, those Mexicans must be stupid, or else, you have no idea what
>> you are talking about.
>>
>> Which one is it?
>
> Well, I know they are less stupid than the person who lists those factors as
> if they were the only ones that are relevant, in an attempt to insult
> someone who does know what those other factors are.

### Deriding somebody's ridiculous rhetoric shouldn't count as a
personal insult. It's the rhetoric that's being derided, giving an
option to correct it, rather than to dig oneself in deeper.

Rafal



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