Thread: Anyone a member of SSANZ or The NZ NSA?

Originally Posted by Happy

What peed me off is that you talk about personal abuse in one of your comments then seems to me you go make Toby look like quite foolish in that posting.

Happy I don't really follow what you're saying but if I can clarify the comment quoted above.

I was not complaining about personal abuse. My point was that trying to negate the validity of a persons argument by attacking the person rather than the argument is a flawed form of debate that is usually resorted to by those who actually cannot raise a valid counter argument. Otherwise known as "shoot the messenger."

My comment about Toby was not intended to make him look foolish. I think he is very astute and has obviously thought through his feelings on this subject and arrived at the conclusion that, yes... sometimes a person cannot comply with a law because it falls outside what they can morally accept.

Kind regards
Richard Lincoln

Originally Posted by krewzr

My point was that trying to negate the validity of a persons argument by attacking the person rather than the argument is a flawed form of debate that is usually resorted to by those who actually cannot raise a valid counter argument. Otherwise known as "shoot the messenger."

And yet on your own forums I'm labelled "is a well known nay sayer and appologist (sic) of inferior intellect ..."

The NSA seems to have difficulty accepting they are simply a small, vocal, hypocritical minority.

This 'petty shit' Beavis ? Here ? Or on a closed forum where debate, reason and disagreement is accepted nor tolerated, especially if it's repeated outside the closed community. Personally I think it's a shame the openness other forums have that allow any member of the public to see discussion and viewpoints isn't tolerated on the NSA, yet god forbid anyone criticse them, because they're labelled sheeple and fools and we're one step away from Nazi Germany in the 1930's.