Logical Fallacy
Highly dissimilar viewpoints don’t bother me — in fact, I love a good intellectually interesting debate. What does bother me, however, is those who passionately latch on to worldviews with which they are only superficially familiar. In arguments, these people’s only defense consists of sputtering emotionally charged strings of words whose meaning they haven’t investigated and logical fallacies of begging the question, burden of proof, irrelevant conclusion, and verbosity.
Show some respect for your viewpoint; take some time to formalize your arguments.
Oh, and please stop yelling at one another.
Try NPR.
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Dan McKeown
What prompted this post? Was there a particular instance you were thinking of? Can I be asking these questions? Why not?