Juergen Hannappel wrote:

Prometheus writes:

On Sat, 2 Oct 2004 12:54:48 -0400, "Jay Knepper"
wrote:

To make the bald statement that "...those pit-bulls are nasty creatures..."
is wrong.

I did agree with a previous poster's sentiment to that effect a few
minutes ago. The original statement was a gut reaction to several
very bad encounters with that particular breed, most of whom were kept
by people who could also reasonably be called "nasty creatures".

This discussion sounds suspicoiusly like that about overpowered cars:
Their defenders tell you "just because my car has 400 horsepowers and
can go 300km/h does not mean that i need to drive too fast...:

Well, there is this difference. This argument is essentially analogous to whether
or not that 400 horsepower vehicle will really do 300km/h.

If the 'car' in question is a semi-tractor designed to haul trailer loads of
freight, then the 300km/h claim is obvious nonsense. But if you're dealing with
people who can't see beyond the horsepower rating and are absolutely, totally,
unshakably convinced that the vehicle _must_ be capable of 300 km/m because it
has 400 horsepower, well. . .

--RC



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