as technical people we like to be precise in the language we use.
I f you want to waffle go and be socialogist, oh wait...
Where you are precise, you are too often precisely wrong. Truth isn't
always precise, and precision isn't always the truth.
Elsewhere you create confusion which is nearly the opposite of
precision, especially when you're trying to destroy someone. A good
example is approximately one half the discussion here about the stack,
in which people who fancy themselves "precise" have completely
confused the issue of the stack by trying to "demonstrate" that Herb
was wrong.
Had these people known computer science, they would have known from
the Turing machine alone that the stack isn't fundamental, and from
formal language theory that it's terribly important. Instead, mere
programmers who fancy themselves scientists have presented absurd
counter-examples which prove nothing about Seebach's false charges.
He could avoid these arguments by saying "lcc-win32 is free for
non-commercial use"
That's what he said. But as in the case of Schildt, you are "trashing"
him.
The practice of "trashing" a person dates from certain feminist covens
and religious cults of the 1970s, and from "struggle sessions" in the
Chinese cultural revolution. For its origins in "acid fascism" of the
1970s, cf
http://www.amazon.com/Mindfuckers-F...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1252842643&sr=8-1,
while Jung Chang's Wild Swans and biography of Mao describes practises
in the Cultural Revolution.
Prior to the 1970s and 1960s, "trashing" also has sources in
McCarthyism and the Stalinist "show trials" of the 1930s.
In "trashing", the group turns upon a person (Sandy Bull, the musician
and member of the Mel Lyman family, Jung Chang's parents, the
Rosenbergs, the Old Bolshevists) and accuses them of responsibility
for group failings: the failure of the commune's crops, the theft of
the atom bomb, the failure of Mao's or Stalin's Five Year Plans, the
latter day mess that is the C programming language...
In "trashing", as opposed to procedure in a court of law in a society
under rule of law, the testimony given by the victim is admissable as
physical evidence of guilt. Note that in a decent courtroom, the
attention of the jury is directed by the judge to the facts, the law,
and the crime as charged, and it is the jury's duty to ignore the
accused's testimony, in most cases, when it seems to be evidence of
guilt, unless the accused changes his plea. This right, which is
withheld in "trashing", appears in the US Bill of Rights as "nor shall
be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself".
But Navia's words are forever here being used against him!
In "trashing", sticking up for the victim becomes transitively risky
for in an effort to rid itself of guilt, the community reasons that
anyone who defends the victim must be a perpetrator.
"Trashing" is legal regression which is used by Fascists to secure
their power.
