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Originally Posted by nobles_point
Very succinct. There is no point in furthering this discussion with someone who is fundamentally anti-government, and can't understand the difference between humour and 'ad hominem'. I'm not going to waste my time trying. May your free choice reign as we cannibalize a sense of collective community and mutual understanding. Later.
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I said that I would be fully in favour of redirecting the CBC’s funding into Internet infrastructure — that is, spending tax moneys on high-value modern infrastructure, instead of using it to maintain an obsolete infrastructure suited to the age of unidirectional mass media. That is hardly the attitude of someone who is ‘fundamentally anti-government’.
If a thing does not need to be done at all, then government does not need to do it. I should think that would be uncontroversial — except to the sort of person who thinks that all government activity is sacred, and that a government program once started must go on forever.
As for the difference between humour and
ad hominem, the two are not mutually exclusive. An insulting remark does not cease to be insulting because it happens to be funny. I would have expected a person of your superior mental capacity to know that.
As for ‘cannibalizing a sense of collective community’: If our sense of collective community is determined by the programming of the CBC, and would not exist without it, then it is such a poor thing that we might as well unplug the life-support system. A real community does not cease to exist just because there is no state propaganda machine to tell it what to think.