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Posted by: Nikhil Jaikumar ( EFZ, MA, USA ) on July 07, 1999 at 10:11:33:

In Reply to: Phallacies... posted by Red Deathy on July 06, 1999 at 15:51:03:

: : This judgement of the hearts and minds of people you have not met or known sounds an awful lot like the attitudes you hold in such disregard.

: Back to condemning people for Judging hearts and minds of others- a bit rich considering your nefarious use of the 'No true scotsman' fallacies-
: 'No heterosexual would be unrepelled by homosexuality'
: 'But I'm heterosexual, and I'm unreppeled'
: 'No *true* heterosexual would be unrepelled...'

: Implicit in such arguments is an attempt to interpollate your interlocutor into being homosexual by definiion if they are not repelled by homosexuality.


Yo, Red, though I hate to disagree with you, you yourself have been guilty of the No True Scotsman argument. (I'm sure I do, also, on occasion, and I won'rt call it a 'fallacy'.....)

You: War is the product of capitalism.
Me: War occurs sometimes for complicated causes unrelated to capitalism.
You: War does not occur between socialist factions.
Me: War has occurred between spocialist factions.
You: Those factions weren't TRULY socialist.

: You judge the hearts and minds of others- just you're subtle enough about it...




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