[jlogajan]

There is actually some value to these scare tactics.

There is until it is disbelieved, then it becomes counter-productive because your credibility on all other issues is squandered.

[biblewonk]

There is until it is disbelieved, then it becomes counter-productive because your credibility on all other issues is squandered.

But with my dad, I think he actually believed both of them. By the time I learned otherwise, I understood the context of his statement and respected it.