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Originally Posted by JFK
Someone always has to be slightly sanctimonious, don't they?
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Lambert sucks. That isn't an attack, it's a fact.
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What makes a writer suck? Fallacious logic? Arguments made without supporting evidence or contradicted by available evidence? By most reasonable standards, including those used to dismiss Lambert, the drivebys are low quality posts (and thus also hypocritical).
This isn't about Lambert, it's about us. Whether he sucks or not is irrelevent - either way, we should aspire to not suck, and that means backing up our thoughts with sound arguments, and not dismissing arguments because we've disliked previous arguments made by the same source.
Lambert could be a total hack and therefore have written a completely bogus article. Or he could be the stopped clock showing the right time. We sort that out by discussing the content.
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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
There have been all kinds of posts tearing apart actual things from the article. But after a while, it becomes redundant.
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I didn't say there weren't people addressing the content. I said that there are a lot of posts that don't. And those become redundant as well.