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Member since:2005-07-24
For my money, that brand of advocacy is almost entirely counterproductive - it basically provides a ready-made strawman argument *against* whatever it is that's being advocated.
Yep. It turns straw men into real people. And it's why I always cringe when I see posts authored by Moulinneuf, Cyclops, Segedunum, and to a lesser extent, Lemur2. (Lemur2 is a *smart* and *well read* fanatic. But a fanatic nonetheless.)
In the end, I think we need to realize that there is more value in cooperation than in fanatically promoting our own causes.
Edited 2009-04-03 18:24 UTC
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2005-07-06
Of course not. If nothing else, my "irony checker" functions well enough that I wouldn't claim that "everyone here is an absolutist" (since that claim would itself be an absolutist statement).
Going by the overall userbase, I'd tend to agree - but it also seems that the majority of posts come from the vocal minority(ies).
Maybe I'm just getting more and more contrarian in my "old age," but I actually find that extremists who advocate positions I agree with (on a fundamental level, at least) annoy me more than those I disagree with completely.
For my money, that brand of advocacy is almost entirely counterproductive - it basically provides a ready-made strawman argument *against* whatever it is that's being advocated.