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remiel asked this question on 8/18/2000:

I have noticed that several recent questions here seem to be highly rhetorical. Not seeking information, but trying to score a debating point. Is there any kind of askme.com guidance on whether this is acceptable?

FreeZone gave this response on 8/21/2000:

I don't see any indication in the site's rules that this conduct violates askme.com policy. It isn't actually as bad on this board as on some others; on one of the politics boards I saw a 'question' that asked whether it would be a patriotic act to assassinate Hillary Clinton.

Mostly, it just makes you look extremely foolish to post a 'question' that is more of an invitation to argue than a real question, then simply refuse to actually engage in the debate that your question invites. I don't know what the goals of people who do this could possibly be, unless they wanted to domonstrate that the worst things the critics say about the conduct of Scientologists are true.

I think that some people have simply been too long in a world of unquestioned acceptance of every word LRH ever wrote. LRH wrote that critics have hidden crimes and, if you make it clear you know about their crimes, they will run for cover. Some people may actually believe they need do nothing more to scare us all away and make this board a place for CoS dissemination than announce that we have crimes and wait for us to scatter. WHen LRH tech mysteriously fails to work, they're usually the ones to scatter. It seems that loyal RTCers have hidden crimes, or at least hidden stupidities, that they can't bear to have exposed.

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