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Every so often a new person joins the site who is so certain of their position on everything that they have to let everyone else know about it and insult them while they are at it.

Insulting people is rude, counterproductive and shows the that the person doing it has weak arguments which they try to disguise by use of ad hominem remarks.

I noticed this trend in your recent remarks to Jerome and now you seem to be applying them to me as well. If you wish to have anyone consider your opinions seriously you need to examine your tone.

As to the point that other societies may have waged wars over nothing even though they weren't capitalistic that is probably true, but somewhat besides the point.

We currently live in a world where the biggest powers are capitalistic and if they do indeed fight wars because of the inherent dynamics of their system then this is worth investigating. That this may not be unique is irrelevant.

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---- Daily Landscape

by rdf (robert.feinman@gmail.com) on Mon Jan 29th, 2007 at 02:52:40 PM EST
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You know, I was going to explain how your historical exceptionalism and experiential bias are annoying when you're trying to pass off falsehoods as historical fact.

But that's nothing compared to your assumption of intellectual relativism.

As if facts and truth were matters of "opinion". As if I should care whether people like me because it will change how authentic are my facts and how powerful are my arguments.

Intellectual relativism is the defense of the brain damaged, literally. It is the worldview of people who cannot comprehend the world in a systematic manner and are reduced to having multiple contradictory "opinions" about it.

I already knew your facts were wrong and your arguments were weak. Now I know enough to dismiss you entirely.

by richardk (richard kulisz gmail) on Thu Feb 1st, 2007 at 09:35:58 PM EST
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You are a waste of bandwidth.

Go Away.

by ATinNM on Thu Feb 1st, 2007 at 10:57:35 PM EST
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