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Originally posted by Lebell
This is your great magnus opus of reason to beat back my "ilk"???
You make blanket statements about "rhetoric" without addressing any of Card's points and then accuse him of appealing to emotion.
After that, you bolster your statement by repeating the original, but instead of addressing points, you add definitions, as if this will help (because I obviously don't know the definitions of the words you used).
Forgive me, but I and the ilk remain unimpressed.
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Lebell,
I just want to point out that "rhetoric" was a compliment--I was stating that he was using a brilliant, skilled craft. i didn't take him on point by point because we have already argued over them extensively.
The "ilk" I referred to was the Right--based on the Right's appeal to sovereign authority versus the Left's appeal to rational authority during the French Revolution.
Neither of these terms were meant to be derogatory, but i think you interpreted them that way.