Valerie
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Does it really thrill you to derail threads L.K.? Is that the only thing you can find to do that entertains you? If so, that's pretty pathetic.
Okay, I just found this somewhat different definition of Intellectual Dishonesty that may or may not be better than mine:
- the advocacy of a position which the advocate knows or believes to be false or misleading
- the advocacy of a position which the advocate does not know to be true, and has not performed rigorous due diligence to ensure the truthfulness of the position
- the conscious omission of aspects of the truth known or believed to be relevant in the particular context.
You mean like the way you derailed a thread about absolute repudiation of torture being a conservative viewpoint and turned it into yet another thread pointing fingers at supposedly intellectually dishonest lefties and yammering on about no one having the courage to answer a question about some movie with a toe...?
This thread is an illustration of your need to take comfort in the hypothetical and your intellectual inability to face the reality of the situation... You made your points in that thread and many people disagreed. Get over it.
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