If You Don't Read Anything Else Today Seeing the Unseen Pt. 1

EjectEjectEject ^ | 11-06-2006 | Proteus

[AliVeritas]

Let’s shag a few easy fly balls to warm up, shall we?

The Chickenhawk argument goes something like this: anyone who favors military action should not be taken seriously unless they themselves are willing to go and do the actual fighting. This particular piece of work is an anti-war crowd attempt to silence the debate by ruling that the other side is out of bounds for the duration. Like all ad hominem attacks, (argumentum ad hominem means “argument against the person”) it is an act of intellectual surrender. The person who employs an ad hominem attack is admitting they cannot win the debate on merit, and hope to chuck the entire thing out the window by attacking the messenger. This is a logical fallacy of the first order, because the messenger is not the message.

The messenger is not the message. That’s all you need to throw away the entire Chickenhawk response. But why stop there when this one is so much fun?

[AliVeritas]

Starts slow, but breaks down every lib argument by reasoning. Beginning with a personal story demonstrating how kids see things they hope are there and at the end, they're not what they hope for. Settle down for a while, great reading.

[AliVeritas]

ping

[RasterMaster]

[EternalHope]

That was an OUTSTANDING read!

Thanks for posting!

[larryjohnson]

USAF ping

[alwaysconservative]

Absolutely brilliant! I've read stuff from this site before (thanks to a link from FR), but he is one of the most talented writers and thinkers out there!

Thanks for posting this!

[Jen]

Thanks for the ping, LJ. I've been a Bill Whittle fan for a long time. Great article.