Louis
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| Quote (skeptic @ Aug. 20 2008,01:31) | Not that I really want to continue this but I am so often amazed at how incapable of rational thought many of you are. Louis if you don't know the difference between rape and sex with your wife then I feel sorry for your wife. The appropriate analogy that you're making is the same as equivicating a boxing match and beating someone senseless in the parking lot. I would hope you can make the distinction.
Move this to something closer to home, is the use of a taser the same as torture or even something so simple as excessive force? |
This is just so unutterably dumb it beggars belief.
Obliviot ('cos I know you'll read this even though you've "flounced out"),
It is not me who is making an argument from false equivalence, it's you. My comment about rape and sex is an illustration of the error in your argument, NOT an argument of equivalence of my own. You're being deliberately stupid.
I know you're being deliberately stupid because even YOU recognise the flaw in your OWN argument re torture by using the "boxing match/pub fight" analogy you just did. You raise the issues of context and consent in exactly the same manner I did! So not only do you defeat your own original "argument" you do so in a manner identical to the way I did! What a muppet you are! I know the difference between these things and I'm arguing that there IS a difference, you're arguing that there isn't! And you seek to lecture other people about (what you erroneously perceive as) their lack of rational abilities. Irony much?
For example, when cases involving consensual sexual "torture" (BDSM etc) have come to the court of human rights the issue has been broken down into several different facets. The main three are: consent, context and the acts themselves. The issue of whether one can consent to a very harmful act aside, the main issues hinge on consent and context. Hence why I mentioned the difference in consent between consensual sex and rape as being illustrative of the difference in consent between consensual participation in a painful act for the purposes of training and torture. That's just one difference. The difference in context is even starker.
Anyway, Wesley said it best. Good riddance.
Louis
ETA: Does this mean we now have a vacancy for a creationist whack-a-loon? We need better quality in-house tard. So far our recent attractees have been pig ignorant, intellectually vacuous, intellectually dishonest, deliberate trolls, self-aggrandising clueless blow hards, simply insane or a combination of all of them. I want high level T.A.R.D. dammit. Someone phone Steve Fuller, he's good for a laugh.
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