From: David Kastrup Date: Sun, 04 May 2014 07:48:59 GMT Subject: Re: Pull is Mostly Evil Message-ID: <87sioqugpg.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> In-Reply-To: James Denholm writes: > Felipe Contreras wrote: >>David Lang wrote: >>> the vast majority of people here do not take that attitude. >> >>It's actually the exact opposite. I don't care what is the track record >>of the people in the discussion. > > Ah, yes, like that discussion we once had where you totally > didn't run `git log | grep James Denholm` at one point to demonstrate > that I had not yet made any > contributions,instead of actually engaging in discussion. Oh, > wait. It's called an "ad hominem attack", and it's a very common and very effective rhetorical device. Cf > The problem, though, is that time and time again you've > shown that you value your own arguments to the exclusion > of all others. You can't tell if someone else's argument is > good, because it runs against yours, and yours must be > right because you hold it. If he considered others capable of independent thought, would he call out their imperviousness to rhetorics as a deficiency? -- David Kastrup