Posted on 01/27/2016 2:17:04 PM PST by don-o
Kelly’s question to Cruz about God in the first debate. It was unfair and mocked God.
Cheapest shot I ever saw was George Stephanopoulos asking Romney about contraception.
If they are ALL asked ‘interview’ questions then it is not unfair to any candidate- just to the viewers.
To ask the same question of a politician would fall into the unfair/irrelevant category, IMHO.
C.S. Lewis would not agree. In the beginning of "Mere Christianity" he says that if one agrees to split an orange with someone and you give a smaller piece, it is a natural, innate reaction to consider that unfair.
Wandering off topic, but I can use some diversion. Thanks for posting.
Would you give an example, please?
Ditto...fairness is an illusion. No such thing in this life. Anyone who expects it will be gravely disappointed.
Classic
Sometimes it isn't quite so cut-and-dried. For example, I'd have to say, "Yeb!, what in God's green earth are you doing at that podium?" is a fairly legitimate question...
Well, IMO, an “interview” question is a personal question for the interviewee...
The questions asked during a real debate should be at large questions about the topic or issue being debated.
I'd also class as unfair a question that calls for a value or moral judgement on sitations without sufficient information.
Absolutely. Such questions cheat the viewers.
They also cheat the candidates.
But they cheat all the candidates.
If “interview” questions are only, or mostly, asked of some candidates and not others- then they are unfair at a debate.
“Is that any way for a president to speak about women?”
Totally gotcha, totally rhetorical, superficial, and self-serving (serving the self of the narcissistic harpie).
“By show of hands, how many of this panel will vow to support the eventual nominee of the R party?”
Again, totally singling out Trump for a gotcha moment, right at the outset of the debate, both questions. No one can tell me that was not intended to knock Trump off his horse.
Exactly!!!!!
Even if you’re right that the very concept of fairness is a Human construct, its still one that, by definition, Humans value and indulge in.
As a Buddhist I would consider that “innate natural reaction” (and I agree that it is) to be an emotional neurotic issue. The person who takes the bigger piece of the orange also has neurotic issues or he’s psychotic and has no emotions about it at all.
As for the action being unfair that is a mental fabrication overlaid on the reality of it. The reality is that one person took more than half and that’s just how it is. There might be a number of reasons for why he did. Selfishness, lack of mindfulness, stupidity, poor vision, ... without a deeper knowledge of the reasons for his actions one can’t determine intent or lack of intent so even by the artificial concept of fairness it’s not possible to know if the rules of fairness were violated.
FWIW I think an understanding of what fairness really is and is not is relevant and on topic. You also began this as a discussion intended to lighten things up so this take on it is on topic in that respect as well.
But this is your thread so you are the final arbiter of that. It’s only fair. :-)
Life may not be fair, but trying to make it so is not such a bad thing for a society to aim at.
Thank you. Expectations lead to disappointment which make it difficult to deal effectively with the reality that is which isn’t going to demur to your rules of what you think things should be.
That's good.
These are not, of course, classic debates in which a single proposition is presented and two sides argue for or against.
These are nothing like that.
What about a one on one Q and A? What's unfair? Not silly or irrelevant, but unfair?
Is there any way MK could have asked a fair question about the names that Trump called those women?
Or is the subject matter completely out of bounds? If so, Why?
Not directed directly at you Boonie. Just throwing some thoughts out there.
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