Re: [s-d] Re: [s-b] CFI: All is Not Made Right.

[Daniel Lepage <dpl33@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Nov 3, 2004, at 6.50 PM, Jeremy Cook wrote:

> Additional comment by Plaintiff:
>
> In the BabelFish example, there is genuinely no way of telling whether
> the translation claim is true. In this example, prior to the second use
> of r699, there is no possible justification for these actions. If
> Wonko's claim that he couldn't tell whether those actions were legal is
> true, at that moment he could not possibly have understood the Game; 
> but
> his post indicated that he was perfectly coherent, and so there's no
> possibility that the claim could be true.

What you're claiming is that you can read my mind, in effect.

You have no way of knowing whether I thought my actions were legal, and 
I see no grounds for the claim that if I couldn't tell, then I must be 
stupid. In fact I did believe my actions to be legal, as a result of my 
argument involving The Voice.

Even if you disagree with me that The Voice effectively can't 
distinguish actions from anything, I definitely did believe at the time 
that the argument was valid and my actions were legal.

Besides which, you have no idea what else I might've been thinking 
there. Perhaps there's some other hole that I think would legalize my 
actions, and I'm just choosing not to mention it yet. Perhaps I had 
taken some strange drug or been hit on the head in such a way that I 
was convinced anything I did would be legal.

Hell, for all you know, I'm not really a person, but actually fifty 
people sharing a single email account, and one of my fifty people is 
kind of dumb from time to time.

--
Wonko

"Write a wise saying and your name will live forever"
     -Anonymous

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