(August 22, 2010 at 11:43 am)RAD Wrote: It seems quite apparent I've thought about it as much as anyone here.Irrelevant. It's not about whether you've thought about it, it's about whether those thoughts are correct or not. (They're not).
(August 22, 2010 at 11:43 am)RAD Wrote: As in O.J. Simpson wasn't there although the evidence was overwhelming. Pullleeeeeeze. Lawyers make up their own facts as they go. It's the lack of facts, or facts hidden from one side, that leads to hung juries and whiny claims of putting on the better case. Bad analogy. Mine are standalone opposing statements that contradict each other in all cases except one, and then it's a stretch.Rational arguements are not dependant upon facts being true or not. It is possible to have a rational arguement based completely on falsehoods and misconceptions.
If anything, you've proven that you do not understand what 'being rational' actually means. If you had read and understood my earlier posts, we wouldn't be having this discussion.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
