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To: lastchance
I was using an exaggerated example of a behavior to show it is never appropriate to attack a child personally. Sorry if you have trouble grasping that.

Hmm, let me see....oh, I get it now, sorta like if an eleven year old kid pulled a gun and shot an entire family in a car at the stop light, it would not be appropriate to attack that child personally?, Especially if they then turned the gun on you?

Using exaggerated examples to prove your point may in fact not be the best of methods to further your point of view, as there may be drawbacks to such a ploy. Even if used by me, it has faults, as you are currently feeling.

Some refer to them as strawmen.

If you wish, feel free to throw up some more exaggerated examples, and I would be happy to give you a response for each and every one, and they probably would not be the same, ie, per your wishes, based on age.

Rather, they, each and every one, would be responded to based on my, yes, my perception of what is right or wrong. Not yours, and certainly not some internet poster who wishes to foist their thoughts and beliefs on others regarding appropriate responses to various social or public outrages, gaffes, and the furthering of outright leftist political agenda, cleverly and not so well disguised as the musings and feelings of an innocent little child.

374 posted on 07/12/2009 6:13:12 PM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a Momma Deuce)
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To: going hot

Yes I can see where it is quite appropriate to compare an eleven year old child wearing a Tshirt that is in questionable taste with an eleven year old who shoots someone in cold blood.


378 posted on 07/12/2009 6:16:56 PM PDT by lastchance (Hug your babies.)
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To: going hot

And just a PS. I don’t think of an eleven year old who kills someone as a child. Perhaps I should clarify that.


381 posted on 07/12/2009 6:18:44 PM PDT by lastchance (Hug your babies.)
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