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Re: sounds convincing, but one question...

Posted By: Dan Rudolph (c1026669-b.cdrrpd1.ia.home.com)
Date: 5/9/2000 at 10:40 p.m.

In Response To: Re: sounds convincing, but one question... (Ares™)

: It's really a moot point, because there is no evidence
: backing up either side. Necessarily, if you believe my
: version of events, you would think that the Leveller
: flees Balor's body when the head is cut off.

: I see a lot of logical support for this...

: 1. If the leveller is trapped inside the head, Alric made
: a major and out-of-character mistake by throwing it in
: the devoid. Seems more likely that with all that infos
: he got from the big D in the desert, he would
: purposefully get rid of the head because it could
: prove dangerous in the future, he wouldn't accidently
: destroy it.

He had no reason to think throwing the head into the void would destroy it. I think he tried to get rid of it in this way because it couldn't accidently be destroyed. It would merely fall forever.

: 2. When other levellers are killed, they are sometimes
: imprisoned (under the mountains of Kor, etc), which
: begs the question of how the Leveller spirit escaped.
: Of course there are plenty of ways to explain that but
: its just going out of your way and inventing even more
: fiction to explain it and ignoring the simpler
: explanation.

Bah, you lecture other people on proper debating techniques, then you misuse begging the question. it actually means pretending that something has been answered when it in fact hasn't. Not that there's an important question that's been left out.

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