why do you like attacking/insulting other people's intelligence, I've seen you do it twice already.Originally Posted by Timmy
You cause others to question your intelligence when you utter ridiculous blanket assertions such as these.
Do you feel intimidated or something.
lol tcaud was speaking hypothetically too. He didn't say all ILI's vote republican but any individual who wasn't "bold" votes republican.
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yeah it seems that Timmy is the only one who's dumb.
That's right crisps, he didn't' say all ILI's vote republican, but nor have I challenged Tcaud on this point. Rather, I challenged him on the premise that all individuals who are not bold do not vote republican. If this were true, then instances where ILI's have not voted republican would serve as proof that some ILI's are bold, which is precisely what he set out to prove. Clearly some ILI's do not vote republican, and so if the premise about individuals who are not bold not voting republican were true, he'd have made his case. However this premise patently absurd and obviously false because, as I wrote earlier, "most people (ILI's included) don't actually party affiliate on the basis of core values(/attitudes) and the extent to which parties jive with those values/(attitudes), and political parties are hardly neatly separable ideological entities anyway." Thus, the existence of a non republican affiliated ILI's says nothing about whether or not ILI's are or are capable of being bold.
I wasn't attacking anybody's intelligence in my former post. What I did was to point out to Tcaud that when a person (him in this instance) makes a silly "blanket assertion," others are likely to think that individual less than extremely intelligent. I assume Tcaud doesn't want to make a bad impression, and too few people are willing to tell him what's up. Occasionally I take this role upon myself, but I don't believe I have ever legitimately attacked his intelligence. I'd be less than entirely candid if not to admit that I found Tcaud's comment preposterous to the point of being offensive to my style of analyzing the world. When somebody says with an air of certainty something that strikes me as ludicrous, I feel compelled to correct them. If that makes you think me a bad person then so be it.why do you like attacking/insulting other people's intelligence, I've seen you do it twice already.
When you say you've seen me "attack" others intelligence twice , is the second instance to which you refer the post I made the other day in which I mentioned that I'd briefly considered the possibility, among several other possibilities, that you fail to understand K0rpsey's intentions and humor because you are an "unusually unintelligent ILI?" If so, I hardly see how you can reasonably construe such a comment as an attack on your intelligence. In any event, it would appear you manage to do a fine job of lowering others' estimations of your intelligence without my help.
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Tcaudillg has some imaginative idea that liberals are superior life forms to conservatives. I have seen him make different comments about how conservatives are unintelligent and other degrading remarks in different threads. I think its absolutely ridiculous to bash another political party by supposing that one side is physically, genetically, or naturally superior. If anything criticize a political parties intentions.
Sumerian how many scientific breakthroughs do you know of that were made by conservatives?
My definition of "bold" in this sense is narrow... it means "willing to take an acknowledged risk." It does not mean "let's invade Iraq because the people will love us because all people yearn for freedom" arrogant-type boldness. The latter is not real boldness, only defiance of opposition in the name of supposed superior understanding and insight. Boldness in the former case means confidence in oneself, not in one's understanding of the world.
and that's the third time.
Yay. I was hoping you'd say that. I love it when people make my points for me. Anyway, last i checked expressing an honest observation is generally not considered tantamount to attack.and that's the third time.
Don't be so hasty. Jarno might count all the way to ten, a boast you can't match. Still, I'm curious why he habitually makes these emotional appeals instead of producing a detailed argument like an NT would.Yay. I was hoping you'd say that. I love it when people make my points for me. Anyway, last i checked expressing an honest observation is generally not considered tantamount to attack.
hey it's the selftype attacker.Don't be so hasty. Jarno might count all the way to ten, a boast you can't match. Still, I'm curious why he habitually makes these emotional appeals instead of producing a detailed argument like an NT would.
last time I checked it depends on the motivation you have for expressing the observation.Yay. I was hoping you'd say that. I love it when people make my points for me. Anyway, last i checked expressing an honest observation is generally not considered tantamount to attack.
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