Alex Reynolds wrote:
quoted 3 lines And when did I say my opinion was better than anyone's? Feel free to
> And when did I say my opinion was better than anyone's? Feel free to
> quote what I've written, and try to avoid the usual "your tone
> says . . ." nonsense.
I wouldn't say that you said that your opinion was better than anyone
else's. What you did say was that the people who voted for Orbital were
influenced by MTV, did not exert any free will, and did not make any
effort to seek out other, perhaps more suitable to your taste, music.
Direct quotes:
quoted 3 lines Yet another example of the undue and undeserved influence we're
>>> Yet another example of the undue and undeserved influence we're
>>> letting MTV have on musical tastes. Show some free will, people, for
>>> God's sakes.
and
quoted 3 lines there were so many alternatives to this of infinitely better quality
>>> there were so many alternatives to this of infinitely better quality
>>> that are *readily* available, if you made the slightest effort, that
>>> noone who voted for these sorry bastards has the least excuse.
I responded because I was insulted by these remarks. You are suggesting
that I don't know how to make up my own mind and that I have no "excuse"
for voting the way I did. I think that's a pretty nasty thing to say.
My response was an attempt to flesh out the thought process I went
through to come to my conclusion, to prove to you that I can, in fact,
decide which things I like better than which other things. By extension,
you might realize that the other people who voted for Orbital probably
went through similar processes to come to their conclusions and that your
assertion that we are lemmings following advertising executives and MTV
programmers has little basis in fact.
Now if I were trying to analyze the two statements of yours that I
quoted, I might say that since you think that my opinion is uninformed
and under-researched, one could reach that conclusion that you think your
opinion is qualitatively better than mine. But I won't say that you said
it explicitly, because you didn't.
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