JakeStarkey
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I'm not against anyone posting their opinion. I just question how that opinion is derived when it is so far out there and ridiculous. Consider it morbid curiosity of wanting to know how someone could actually write stuff like that.
If you are seriously interested in how somebody arrives at their opinion, the best way to find that out is ask them. If your intent is to belittle or diminish or accuse them, one way to do that is to ask a personal question in an insulting way.
People can actually write stuff like that because there is a basis for it. It isn't manufactured out of thin air. Do people always arrive at the correct conclusions when these things come up? No they don't. They didn't when they did it during the Reagan administration. Or the Bush 41 admnistration. Or the Clinton administration. Or the Bush43 administration. Or the present administration.
But it really gives more credence to the theories when those theories seem so terrifying to the adoring worshippers of the leadership. They don't care WHY the messenger came up with the theories. They must kill the messenger quickly lest others hear the message.
If they didn't fear the message or if it was as ridiculous as you say, you would know that the messenger would appear foolish to any intelligent person and you would have no need to discredit the messenger.
The best way to put these things to rest, however, is to show how the theory or opinion is impossible or off base. Attacking the messenger only reinforces what you wish to refute.
Calling out nonsense as nonsense is being a meanie?
Are you for real?
I did the same to those who were accusing GWB of somehow not honorably serving his military service time. I did the same to those who were accusing JK of not being a soldier of valor.
To continue a supposed line of inquiry when no evidence supports it reflects an agenda that is beyond curiosity.
Don't ever try this in a philosophy or logic class because you will find out the professor will be a meanie.