Posted on 04/12/2014 12:10:32 PM PDT by Kaslin
Bad premises, followed with perfect logic, yield bad conclusions.
Especially the premise that they’re “compassionate” and “tolerant.”
-— Years ago, Allan Keyes told the audience at a function I was attending this: “You’ll never win a argument you don’t make.” -—
Excellent.
I ran for school committee in a liberal Marxichusetts town, just to get even for the education committed against me. I ran on a school choice platform because I see it as the only practical way to reform tax-funded schooling.
I must have asked the question, “why do my opponents oppose parents choosing their own schools?”
Of course, it’s an impossible question to answer, and none ever did. It sure beat talking about the Spanish immersion program.
And the latest unicorn and candy kisses premise, “they cross the border illegally out of love”.
that should be lesson #1 but all too often gope candidates fail at this
The old, “Have you quit beating your wife? Yes, or no?”
Sometimes they (the liberals) get the premise right and the solution wrong and work this scenario in their favor as well. People who don’t bother to think for themselves hear the correct premise with a terrible solution and assume since the premise is correct the solution is correct as well.
Examples: the problem: promiscuous behavior in the young has increased; solution - more abortion, more birth control, less regulation of pornography, movie standards, etc.
the problem: unemployment and a welfare society with no work ethic - the solution: more government money handed out to enable the behaviors
There are other examples out there; this odious set up by the left is another example of how they are winning in the idea realm.
Do you think in your maddest feverdreams that the LGBT crowd would conform to normal behavior, instead they are demanding that all others conform to their's.
Response: "Have you?"
Any person subject to this chapter who engages in unnatural carnal copulation with another person of the same or opposite sex or with an animal is guilty of sodomy. Penetration, however slight, is sufficient to complete the offense.
This is how it reads now:
Forcible Sodomy.— Any person subject to this chapter who engages in unnatural carnal copulation with another person of the same or opposite sex by force or without the consent of the other person is guilty of forcible sodomy and shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.
Gays don't have to conform and change their behavior if Obama's generals change the code.
Another trap is being asked how you feel about a group like gay people; the premise is that you must hold an opinion about people you’ve never met based upon a single trait. How about “I reserve my judgment to only those people I know or whom I know about. My judgment is grounded on more than a single trait, like sexual behavior or skin pigmentation, but is founded on character traits, like loyalty, compassion, fidelity and industry.” You don’t have to generalize about any random group that share a single trait. In fact, if you do, that’s bigotry.
For instance, you’ll often hear gun-grabbers say something like: “you don’t need a gun like that for hunting”.
Would saying “I don’t recognize your right to decide what I need and don’t need” work? That’s usually my response when someone talks about my needs.
Examine your premises!
Another good reply: “Well then, I guess its a good thing I don’t care what you think.”
“Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument”
I decline to accept the premise of this argument.
I decline to decline to accept your declination of his argument.
Are we in “violent agreement” as Jerry B. Harvey might say?
That is an issue... the UCMJ is something that CAN be politically remolded. Nonetheless, it’s an illustration of not letting someone reframe your thoughts for you to the ill.
The double, triple, quadruple negatives get dizzying.
At the least it highlights what they are trying to do; and it’s seldom something actually sensible like “You don’t need a hundred hydrogen bombs in your garage.”
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