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Originally Posted by hardcastle
It's not a matter of justification. It's attacking the arguments made, not the person making the arguments. Konrath goes for the cheap shot too often, despite not having to. He can destroy each and every point they make without trying, with ample evidence.
I'd happily post around a link to a proper, respectful destruction of each of AG or AU's points, but if I gave Konrath's AU blog post link to friends of mine they'd wonder what this guy is getting so worked up about.
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Joe Konrath's fisk, complete with sarcasm and ridicule, does absolutely demolish what you so generously refer to as "AU's points". He does so in an entertaining way. This is in my view proper, but certainly not respectful. This Authors United effort, like their previous one, is so bad as to almost be a caricature of this type of letter rather than a serious effort at persuasion. Joe Konrath uses sarcasm and ridicule freely, and does indeed ridicule the people making the "arguments". They deserve it, particularly so in the context where their letter was itself little more than a ridiculous, hysterical and largely baseless attack on Amazon and Bezos, in an attempt to ultimately have Amazon broken up. There is nothing civilised or genteel about either their letter or their other conduct. The Marquis of Queensbury has no place in a street fight.
If Joe Konrath's fisks are not to your liking, perhaps you are better off not reading them. Because Joe's fisks are all about ridicule. They are all like this, and I look forward eagerly to reading each one. And I have difficulty of thinking of any person or group more deserving of being ridiculed than Authors United.