Stu Ungar FACTS

[Big Al]

Having "way too much gamble" is not a formula for success in life overall and those that do always end up busted one way or the other.

[Schmed]

then don't bother ever bad mouthing your Windows software because I doubt you could create a better operating system....oh and the President....don't ever critisize him as you clearly could never be elected President....

[Terry]

Here’s a little story I once hear Stu tell.

“I had a horrible nightmare last night. I woke up sweating and shaking and my heart was pounding. I dreamed I was playing no limit Hold ‘em with my own money.”

[baggins]

i agree with this.

i refrain from much comment on the president precisely because i am not the president and do not operate under the same curcumstances and conditions as he does.

[southerndog]

I agree with Duke. Its terrible to judge others. You can say, he did drugs, and that's a mistake.. or, he neglected his family, and that's a mistake, but that doesn't put us in a position to judge others. Sitting in judgment of others is what certain groups in the south like to do, and it is the only thing I don't like about this part of the country, that and the lack of casinos..

[ElSapo]

i refrain from much comment on the president precisely because i am not the president and do not operate under the same curcumstances and conditions as he does.

But you (the general you, not you specifically) elected him and this is why, exactly, you should be talking and criticising. This example doesn't really apply.

I don't really agree with the statement that just b/c you can't do something doesn't mean you can't criticise it. Many people have a vested stake, one way or another, in many things -- people with season tickets to the Sox are probably well within their rights to criticise the management, regardless of whether or not they could do better.

[Michael Davis]

This is a basic tu quoque fallacy.

Try conducting an argument without resorting to vulgarity.

-Mike

[Michael Davis]

How ironic that we are not allowed to "judge others" because "certain groups in the south" do so.

Perhaps you forgot your own request?

Anyways, judging others by their personal conduct is completely legitimate. It is what we do when we send people to prison, take away their children, or decide not to marry them. I can't imagine a place where we can't judge others. This is how me make friends and get along socially in the world.

Even if you are referring to people we don't know, we can still judge them. We just need to watch out for misinformation. People are all conflicted; everyone is good and bad. Some ARE better than others. The best thing we have to judge someone on is their personal conduct. Here, Stuey falls way short of the mark. (Notice the difference between this and judging someone by their ethnicity.)

-Mike

[tiltboy]

Elaborate?

[tiltboy]

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Sitting in judgment of others is what certain groups in the south like to do

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Irony? You have just judged an entire region of the country, millions of people. Are you so myopic that you think racial prejudice only exists in the south? Here's a trivia question for you - in which state of the union was the klu klux klan formed?