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To: Bruce Campbells Chin

“You can demand 100% purity on an issue if you want, but it does you little good if that purity offends so many people that you lose the issue. “

Prove your assertion - with facts.


19 posted on 03/31/2016 1:32:23 PM PDT by sergeantdave ( If not you, who? If not now, when?)
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To: sergeantdave
“You can demand 100% purity on an issue if you want, but it does you little good if that purity offends so many people that you lose the issue. “

Prove your assertion - with facts.

Normally, I don't respond to rude feminine hygiene products, but I'll make an exception in your case.

My statement was an "if/then" conditional statement. So you assume the "if", and see if the "then" logically follows. That makes it more of a logical assertion than a factual one (because of that "if"), but I'll give it a shot. So, here's the statement you apparently want me to prove "with facts (and please note the bolded word):

"it does you little good if that purity offends so many people that you lose the issue

That "if" means that I don't have to prove that so many people were offended for my statement to be true. It was the conditional built into the statement. So, we take as a given that it "offends so many people that you lose the issue." Obviously, if it doesn't offend that many people, then you don't lose that issue. That's why I said "if". Capice?

The "then" part of what I said was "it does you little good". I personally think it is self-evident that "it does you little good" if "an issue is lost" because, well, it's lost. Right?

Oh, and if you think I've ducked your point, it is because you either 1) didn't read correctly the statement I made, or 2) phrased your question poorly. Neither is my fault.

Have a nice day, Sarge!

20 posted on 04/01/2016 6:33:02 AM PDT by Bruce Campbells Chin
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