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To: HiTech RedNeck

Then you advocate that a freeper should just go Jimmy Carter on aggressive, ignorant insults? The Manichean/Mencken fallacy.

One of the axioms utilized by H.L. Mencken in analyzing politics in the
United States stated that Americans were unable to grasp arguments on their
face and instead needed them recast in pure Manichean terms, with the most
repellent of devils on one side and the purest of angels on the other.

I’ve seen this axiom come into play on various debates including right
here. It is disheartening to see this logical fallacy lent credulity. But
it is human nature, and even moderators are drawn from the cloth of human nature
as are we all.


164 posted on 03/02/2014 9:08:16 PM PST by Kevmo ("A person's a person, no matter how small" ~Horton Hears a Who)
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To: Kevmo

They should go God.


165 posted on 03/02/2014 9:09:11 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Kevmo

And God isn’t theory. God is real. I’ve met God. God lives in me now. Even sometimes when I’d rather He not.


168 posted on 03/02/2014 9:10:15 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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