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: Why is this even an issue? Surely a discussion of Russell's actual philosophical outlook and contributions in all fields, as well as his biography, should be given pride of place here, rather than his ambiguous position on communism? Let's face it, a lot of academics, philosophers and thinkers supported the concept of communism at its inception, and it is not that important at all to put that in. It's just not. It's childish, and a way of using the "poisoning the well" logical fallacy against Russell due to a hatred of some of what he wrote and thought. Shouldn't you be a bit more grown up? [[User:Blackjuice|Blackjuice]] 12:58, 28 May 2007 (EDT)
: Why is this even an issue? Surely a discussion of Russell's actual philosophical outlook and contributions in all fields, as well as his biography, should be given pride of place here, rather than his ambiguous position on communism? Let's face it, a lot of academics, philosophers and thinkers supported the concept of communism at its inception, and it is not that important at all to put that in. It's just not. It's childish, and a way of using the "poisoning the well" logical fallacy against Russell due to a hatred of some of what he wrote and thought. Shouldn't you be a bit more grown up? [[User:Blackjuice|Blackjuice]] 12:58, 28 May 2007 (EDT)
::Juice, there are those among us who believe that if there is one disagreeable thing about someone from the observers point of view, that it should color the entire person and render meaningless and immaterial anything else about the person, whether the issue they opposein the person is major or minor. That is a rather immature personality quirk. Thankfully, there are as many amongus who are NOT like that also =) [[User:Jros83|Jros83]] 02:19, 25 June 2007 (EDT) (And I personally feel this article does a disservice to Betrand Russel, not that I am a fan OR an opponent, as I do not know very much about him, but it IS obvious that this artivle suffers from what I just lamented about...)