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To: Mr. Silverback
People who think calling someone names doesn't make your point only think that way because they're cowards?

No: People who become apoplectic and shout over calling names are.

It's displacing the shame over not having the courage to oppose the group that you know will hurt you onto the group you know will not.

372 posted on 03/09/2007 11:18:59 AM PST by papertyger
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To: papertyger
It's displacing the shame over not having the courage to oppose the group that you know will hurt you onto the group you know will not.

Here's a quiz, just two quick questions:

1. You are a student at a four year university in an American History survey course. Your history professor tells the class that robber barons preyed on workers and customers through monopolies to support their unbridled greed. If you want to balance or overcome the effect of this drivel and convince your fellow students that conservatism is the better ideology, should you...

A. Point out how the so-called robber barons like Carnegie and Rockefeller made it easier for the common man to afford products that improved their lives, and used the profits to benefit mankind
B. Use the professor's own published work to prove his unswerving support of Marxist ideology, rendering his views on any capitalist operation suspect at best
C. Ask the professor whether all retards have sex with their mothers like he does, then sit down and wait for his answer. When he objects to your slanderous statement, you accuse him of trying to shut you up based on ideology.

2. You are running for city council in a town of 25,000 people. Your opponent is the incumbent and is related to the owner of a local airport. He wants to temporarily raise property taxes and use the money to fund major improvements to the local airport, including a runway extension so 737s and larger airliners can fly in and out. Do you...

A. Run ads detailing the effect of the taxes on the local economy and showing figures that prove no increased air service will materialize
B. Run ads detailing his history of tax hikes to fund pet projects, including several "temporary" tax increase that are still in place
C. Wait until you meet in a debate, and then ask in your opening statement when he will stop having sex with his dog.

Now...Your point seems to be that anyone who would rule out option C as a good tactic is a coward, displacing his shame over not having the courage to stand up against the enemy. Sure you want to keep going with that line of reasoning?

377 posted on 03/09/2007 12:20:40 PM PST by Mr. Silverback ("Logic" is as meaningless to a liberal as "desert" is to a fish.--Freeper IronJack)
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