Mokele Posted April 11, 2009 Posted April 11, 2009 Well, I send my kisses in the form of a rigorous philosophical debate. Someone should have told me sooner that rigorous debating is too much of a bother for the "home team," and that its members will become upset if their arguments are not agreed to in every detail by every poster. So "rigorous" means "making things up"? And "debate" means "repeating the same baseless speculation, in spite of having been proven wrong"? I've seen creationists with better debating skills than you, scrappy.
ParanoiA Posted April 11, 2009 Posted April 11, 2009 Apparently the only qualification to be on the home team is to disagree with scrappy. That would make us the majority, and we all know how scrappy feels about the precious majority opinion, so by his own arguments shouldn't he STFU? Or be a hypocrite? Just askin... 1
Phi for All Posted April 11, 2009 Posted April 11, 2009 I'm actually pretty proud of this subforum for the way its working with Scrappy. The Reported Posts subforum is full of Scrappy reports, but everyone can relax. He's received some infractions and will likely receive more, not for his opinion, but for repeating logical fallacies and trolling. Meanwhile his POV is being (more or less) respected and he's being allowed to state his opinion. When he puts up a flawed argument, it gets pointed out quickly and doesn't get to stand. Exactly how it should be -- applause! I want to point out that Scrappy has been respectful of other people's opinions and does not generally attack people. I believe he can be a valuable contributor to discussions here if he'll back off on the logical fallacies and perhaps be more acknowledging when his reasoning is unsuccessful. I think we all know how hard it is when you feel like you're all alone and under fire -- let's keep that in mind, eh? Good dissent is a valuable thing that raises the quality of debate. The goal should be preserving and building that, whenever possible. Let's see if we can do that here. Extremely well put. And kudos for those who took their fingers out of their ears long enough to listen to it.
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