From: nobody@neva.org (Neva Remailer)
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 22:24:38 +0800
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Subject: Robust Debate
Message-ID: <199711181359.HAA05388@dfw-ix4.ix.netcom.com>
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Joichi Ito wrote:
>> This discussion is hardly going down in flames. You're apparently
>> too sensitive to engage in robust debate.
>
>This is true. I am not going engage in what you probably call a
>robust debate. A lot of people read this list and any robust debate
>will probably lower my reputation capital in some important area for
>me no matter what the outcome. I am not currently willing to take
>this risk.

1. IMO, robust debate is the source of new ideas.  New and worthwhile
ideas are often shocking.  For example, the music by Bach, Beethoven,
the Beatles, and even the Sex Pistols were all shocking in their time.

2. Attacks on your posts only lower your reputation if the attacks
have substance.  Tim May has been attacked more than anybody else on
the list for years.  His reputation capital is doing just fine.

3. Use of remailers simplifies True Name reputation management.

Monty Cantsin
Editor in Chief
Smile Magazine
http://www.neoism.org/squares/smile_index.html
http://www.neoism.org/squares/cantsin_10.htm

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