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Question answered by FreeZone in Scientology
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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