(January 26, 2016 at 5:30 pm)Aegon Wrote:(January 26, 2016 at 3:28 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: You have the right to your own opinions, but not to your own facts. The idea that you can say why perfect strangers feel a certain way about a certain topic is silly on its face.
Yet majority of members here do that with religious people every day...
To be fair, mainstream religions of all stripes have fairly well-defined views, while you will hopefully have noticed that this topic is not quite as clear-cut.
And even if it were, tu quoque is fallacious thinking.
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I'm not sure what you mean, to be honest. Are you saying the line you quoted isn't true? Because I'd direct you to the majority of Donald Trump supporters as evidence.
I'm saying that you can't say why someone thinks a given way given your paucity of information. Assuming things about the inner thoughts of someone is not tight thinking, and when it's as corrosive as your opinion was, is almost surely the result of bias on your part.
The fact that your baseless assumption is so uncharitable only further weakens whatever point it was you were trying to make.
I notice you didn't address the points I made earlier in the thread, as well.