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Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!txtfeed2.tudelft.nl!tudelft.nl!txtfeed1.tudelft.nl!dedekind.zen.co.uk!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!prichard.zen.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID:  From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Ban cycle helmets for cyclists Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 23:53:58 -0000 References: <793d1f3c-5503-4d0e-81c9-a6280645f08c@t23g2000vby.googlegroups.com> <8b11e649-8763-4aa7-93db-1859643f2c3c@q35g2000vbb.googlegroups.com>  <20110117165454.19bca115@bluemoon> <2a2c7662-5ac3-4b6d-afb3-4f587ccbf0f0@v17g2000vbo.googlegroups.com> Lines: 30 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: MicroPlanet-Gravity/2.9.14 Organization: Zen Internet NNTP-Posting-Host: fdae9fba.news.zen.co.uk X-Trace: DXC=7Q2T@7P\IlP>RMKFKlc5fW0g@SS;SF6nWRiiCXJE[K>W6j[]3=5MZZ]`:ITG5aA:cWLdeLjPog2lR X-Complaints-To: abuse@zen.co.uk Bytes: 2537 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:796935

In article <2a2c7662-5ac3-4b6d-afb3-4f587ccbf0f0 @v17g2000vbo.googlegroups.com>, del.copeland@tiscali.co.uk says... > > On Jan 17, 4:54 pm, Rob Morley  wrote: > > On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 03:40:00 -0800 (PST) > > > > ash  wrote: > > > I think the lives of cyclists saved transcend this point! > > > > Except lots of people would be put off cycling, health would suffer, > > lives would end prematurely. That should be obvious to anyone with > > half a brain. > > Typical psycholist's argument!

To be fair I wouldn't call Rob Morley a psycholist (not that I'm saying you did). He certainly has many of the same opinions as a psycholist, and has no problem with expressing them forcefully and slapping people down very directly when he thinks they're misbehaving.

But crucially he does not have a fundamental intolerance of opposing opinions, and is prepared to argue with them fairly without resorting to the kinds of tactics that we see from the likes of Wacko and Chapman (i.e. attempting to censor people in order to avoid having to address awkwardly good opposing arguments, vocally killfiling them for the same reason, whinging about non-existent "personal attacks" for the same reason, etc).

It goes without saying that Mr Morley is dissatisfied with the way that uk.rec.cycling.moderated is currently being "run".