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To: radicalamericannationalist
If you have no logical argument, make up a position for your opponent, and debate that. It's called a strawman argument, and lots of losers use it.


200 posted on 11/02/2004 6:45:16 AM PST by Protagoras (Hating Kerry doesn't make you a conservative.)
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To: Protagoras
Okay, let me lay it out for you. Marriage is the basic building block of our civilization. It is the fundamental tool used to socialize children in how to behave in society. If we let it degrade into a amorphous concept of any combination of people (why stop there? I'm sure some folks Love their pets) who want to be "married," the institution is destroyed. Conservatives understand this. Libertinians do not.

And personally, IO think the strawman is the perfect mascot of the libertinians, as their arguments have very little intellectual weight behind them.
207 posted on 11/02/2004 9:51:12 AM PST by radicalamericannationalist (Kurtz had the right answer but the wrong location.)
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