From: dcrosgr@uoft02.utoledo.edu
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: Pardon Fischer?
Date: 28 Dec 92 10:42:39 EST
Organization: University of Toledo, Computer Services

In article <1992Dec28.045402.13589@midway.uchicago.edu>, hau4@ellis.uchicago.edu (sven  hauptfeld) writes:
> In article <1992Dec21.101710.587@uoft02.utoledo.edu> dcrosgr@uoft02.utoledo.edu writes:
>>In article <1992Dec21.045954.5444@midway.uchicago.edu>, hau4@ellis.uchicago.edu (sven  hauptfeld) writes:
>>
>>Please go study your history.
> 
> I stand firmly behind what I have said. If you disagree, be specific.

Fine. I disagree with your claim that the Nazis, in commiting their acts,
violated specific statutes.

Now, it is real hard for me to prove this without dredging up every statute
known to man and posting it to this group to show that none were broken.

If you have an example or two of War Crimes, which were in place BEFORE WWII,
which the Nazis violated, please, by all means, post them here so all of us may
know where you are gleaming your facts from.

(And, I'll even be one of the first two asks these two question:

1. Why the fuck couldn't you let the damned thread die? EVERYONE else had.

2. What does THIS have to do with Chess? Take it to:

alt.I.don't.know.squat.about.history


> 
>>> 
>>> Nonsense. Fischer wasn't indicted for playing chess, but for doing business.
>>
>>What business was that...was it:
>>
>>1. Operating a 7-11?
>>2. Selling US passports?
>>3. Playing Chess?
>>
> You obviously don't understand the difference between playing chess and doing
> business playing chess. Are you as hard-headed in the following examples:

I asked what business he had done...didn't I? Did I ask what sport he had
engaged in.

Yes, one of us is being-hardheaded (or empty-headed), but it is not me.

> 
> Difference between a Public School teacher TEACHING his own kid his religious
> beliefs at home and the same person TEACHING the students at school the same
> beliefs?

Oh, so if a US teacher goes to Isreal this summer, and teaches the theory of
creationism, we should strip her of her license for violating the seperation of
church and state doctrines?

> 
> A prostitute HAVING SEX with her boyfriend/husband (or do you think prostitutes
> can't have them?) and the same person HAVING SEX for business?

Woman flies to Bangkok and pulls back a few tricks so she can buy her plane
ticket home. Should we impound her money and lock her up.

> 
> A soldier KILLING the enemy at the battlefield and the same person coming home
> and KILLING his wife?

Hey! This is your best one yet! We can lock him up for BOTH crimes now!

> 
> A person RECORDING a TV program for personal use and the same person RECORDING
> the same TV program and selling copies?

Person records and sells a copy of Australian Blue while in Australia. Clear
violation of U.S. Copyright laws. Obvious felony.

> 
> A person LENDING money to their buddy and a bank LENDING money to its Visa card
> holders?

Hmmm... I didn't know either of these were crimes....



> 
> None of these is an exact analogy, but all should give you a hint that what
> Fischer did cannot be called simply 'playing chess'.

Exact? I loved each of these examples because when you modify the hypo to make
it closer to what we have here, it becomes obvious that:

1. You didn't think this through at all.

2. You position is founded on gut-level emotionalism and NOT logic.

FISCHER WAS IN ANOTHER COUNTRY!!!

Now, can we let this die, or do you want to be embarassed some more?

> 
> 	Sven
>