gbaji wrote:
Ad-hominums are ok in your mind then? Let's ignore what the guy said, let's just call him a ****** cause, well... I don't agree with him. Cant say way. Don't want to think that hard. But I know I dont agree with him, so he must be wrong, so he must be retarded.
Katchi, for the record, the reason most people don't dignify my arguments with a reasonable response is because in many cases, they *can't*. It's hard to actually respond to a set of logical premises and step by step reasonsing. You have to actually *think* about the issue before you. It's much easier to simply repeat what you've heard or read somewhere and hope the other guy goes away.
And when he doesn't, then you start calling him names and hope that makes him go away. The pattern is pretty obvious really.
Actually, I'd noticed the pattern.
That is why I said I thought I'd seen this episode before.
Person A disagrees with gbaji and can't come up with a good reason why.
Person A refers to gbaji as retarded.
gbaji responds with righteous indignation.
Persons B, C, D, and E show up to watch with lawn chairs and popcorn.
Person F notes that this event has happened several times before, and really wasn't that interesting the last few times.
Persons A, B, C, D, E, and gbaji throw popcorn (and lawn chairs) at Person F.
