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To: x
Sure, sure, but for all your attacks, just exactly what were your contributions to our country?

Trying to make it about me? I don't bother with arguments in which someone tries to make me the issue rather than the actual topic.

This is a combination of tu quoque and ad hominem argument and I try to avoid engaging in logical fallacies.

Also, I don't want to talk about my contributions (and in my thinking they were quite valuable) to our country because this would help identify me, and I already know what happens when people know who you are and where you live.

I don't know if you've ever dealt with liberal retaliation, but I have, and I would rather not go through that sort of trouble again.

15 posted on 04/16/2022 5:21:39 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: DiogenesLamp; BroJoeK; rockrr
The reason I asked is that you seem to be convinced that if you or people like you or people like you or people you like had been running things that the country wouldn't have had any problems.

Countries always have problems, and things aren't looking that great for us now, but we settled the continent, we got rid of slavery and segregation, we won two world wars, we prevailed in the Cold War, we built what may be the first mass affluence society, we had great inventions and created marvelous things, we put a man on the moon.

I don't know if we would have achieved any of that if you or people who think like you or people you approve of had been in charge. Maybe we wouldn't have survived. Maybe we'd be living in caves, wearing animal skins and trying to stay warm by rubbing sticks together.

Every society has inequality. Every society has an elite. If you and people like you were running things, you'd be the elite and you'd make the same stupid mistakes other elites have made. So for the love of all that is holy, get off your high horse and stop assuming that you have all the answers to everything. And don't lecture about logical fallacies if you can't see how illogical and fallacious your own point of view is.

44 posted on 04/16/2022 4:45:17 PM PDT by x
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