On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Daniel Phillips <d.phillips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 07/20/2013 12:36 PM, Felipe Contreras wrote: >> I think you need more than "hope" to change one of the fundamental >> rules of LKML; be open and honest, even if that means expressing your >> opinion in a way that others might consider offensive and colorful. > > Logical fallacy type: bifurcation. You can be open and honest without > being offensive or abusive. You are mistaken, that is not what the false dichotomy fallacy means. I'm not saying you have to be A (open and honest), or B (polite), and that you can't be both, if that's what you arguing (which seems to be the case), you are wrong, and to argue against that position would be a straw man fallacy. Your mistaken fallacy seems to be that you think one can *always* be both A (open and honest), and B (polite), I'm not sure if there's a name for that fallacy, but you don't provide any evidence for that claim. And even supposing that such an obvious fallacy (that one can *always* be both open and honest, and polite) was true, the fact that something *can* be done, doesn't mean it *should* be done. -- Felipe Contreras -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html