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Priority of cleaning up unclear legal statusPriority of cleaning up unclear legal statusPosted Jan 19, 2013 16:24 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304)In reply to: Priority of cleaning up unclear legal status by rcweir Parent article: A discordant symphony
I was not speaking of Matt. I was speaking of the post from the LibreOffice Marketing DirectorReally? Then why, two posts further up the chain, did you say Not at all. I don't for a second remotely think that Matt believes what he is writing. He is playing Devil's Advocate.You clearly were speaking of Matthew, but perhaps you forgot this in a period of less than five hours.
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Priority of cleaning up unclear legal status Posted Jan 19, 2013 23:56 UTC (Sat) by rcweir (subscriber, #48888) [Link]
So when Matt suggests submitting "racist screeds" to Apache you think he is not playing Devil's Advocate? If so, I think you are the one insulting Matt. Or maybe you just need a bigger dictionary.
-Rob
Priority of cleaning up unclear legal status Posted Jan 20, 2013 0:00 UTC (Sun) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239) [Link]
I don't think playing Devil's Advocate means what you think it means.
Priority of cleaning up unclear legal status Posted Jan 20, 2013 0:10 UTC (Sun) by rcweir (subscriber, #48888) [Link]
"In common parlance, a devil's advocate is someone who, given a certain argument, takes a position he or she does not necessarily agree with, for the sake of debate. In taking this position, the individual taking on the devil's advocate role seeks to engage others in an argumentative discussion process. The purpose of such process is typically to test the quality of the original argument and identify weaknesses in its structure, and to use such information to either improve or abandon the original, opposing position."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil%27s_advocate
You took the position of someone submitting a racist screen to Apache, a position you presumably do not agree with, for sake of debate, to test the quality of the original argument, etc.
-Rob
Priority of cleaning up unclear legal status Posted Jan 20, 2013 0:22 UTC (Sun) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239) [Link]
It's my genuinely held belief that if I were to submit racist screeds via an Apache SGA that they would not be accepted, not a belief that I'm adopting for argument's sake. If you want to stick a label on it, it's argument ad absurdum.
Priority of cleaning up unclear legal status Posted Jan 20, 2013 0:29 UTC (Sun) by rcweir (subscriber, #48888) [Link]
Well, whatever you want to call it, I was saying that you did not believe in submitting racist screeds to Apache, that you were merely using that as a rhetorical device. I apologize if you thought that was an insult.
-Rob
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