h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

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What I meant was slavery of people in the USA.

Ah well many countries do a ind of slavory, basicaly trapping people into cerain types of wor, eps imagrents. and paying them less that what is needed to live.

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Yur that's true but it's not slavery in its absolute form: treating people as property, not paying them, and just replacing them when they get broken.

you'd be suprided, that if you took out the word slavory, people would think your were talking about the poor and poorer.

-- DoctorMO --

I realise that that is true, but the poor have legal rights, even if they're frequently abused. Slaves have none. In slave- holding America and everywhere, the poorest white, up to his elbows in debt, and keeping himself that way with excess drink and gambling, was the social superior of the most hard- working black.

I see your point.

But...? No but? Come on! I've come to expect losing to you. Why isn't there a but?

because I can see your point, and because I can half belive it myself, it's one of thouse proposes, were I wanted you to look at the similarities rather then define what slavory is. s anyway.



-- DoctorMO --

So in a sense I didn't /really/ win, You cleverly manipulated the conversation whether intentionally or not I don't know, but either way that's better than a win for you.

I can't see why I have to /win/ every debate, I just want to look at the world with minds of similar kind, and see what we can see...

I don't win, I just learn.

-- DoctorMO --

Well, no, I suppose, but like I said: I'm used to you having some counter- argument that I can't counter.

You like to be countered I can see, so do I. but I can't counter everything. It just dosn't mean win/lose it means if I say any more I'll just be repeating myself.

-- DoctorMO --

Win/lose is oversimplified I know but it's quicker than "Sort of win, but really that's just because the other guy can't think of a counter- argument

Nice to see the two of you going into a deep philosophical debate about the nature of arguments.

always a pleasure

a sort of win is still a win in your eyes, I disn't just say nothing, I conceeded you were right, but only because of the type of arugment. if you wanted a strait win. try 'Ah yes but isn't it art'.

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"But isn't it art"?

Not sure, could you ask in hebrew? perhaps some deeper meaning will emerge

-- DoctorMO --

Latin maybe, French maybe, Ancient Greek possibly, but not Hebrew.

Sed non artus est?

hmm, hebrew, is much better for the imagination...

-- DoctorMO --