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Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
Townhall.com ^ | April 12, 2014 | Steve Deace

Posted on 04/12/2014 12:10:32 PM PDT by Kaslin

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To: Kaslin

I’ve been doing these kinds of things all my life. I usually preface it with “that’s not a question, it’s a stupid statement based upon a wrong headed assumption”.


61 posted on 06/02/2022 8:24:56 AM PDT by isthisnickcool (1218 - NEVER FORGET!)
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Some folks never learned top think or never could. It’s like if I point to a red door on a house and say “what color is it?”. Or something I like to do with kids, I ask “if you could have one wish what would that wish be?”.

The answer to the first question is “it’s red on this side”. The answer to the second question is “I’d wish to be the person who grants all the wishes”.


62 posted on 06/02/2022 8:27:34 AM PDT by isthisnickcool (1218 - NEVER FORGET!)
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The answer to the second question is “I’d wish to be the person who grants all the wishes”.

No, it's not. That's merely wishing to be put into slavery.

63 posted on 06/02/2022 8:53:00 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack )
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“”No, it’s not. That’s merely wishing to be put into slavery””.

I’m not sure how that could be the case since you would be able to change anything you wanted to.


64 posted on 06/07/2022 9:11:32 AM PDT by isthisnickcool (1218 - NEVER FORGET!)
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Canon says that the genie must grant the wishes the person wishes for.

You'd be beholden to the current wish-requestor.

The correct answer would be to set the genie free, and not have to grant any more wishes. It's not like we're intelligent enough to wish for something without screwing things up.

65 posted on 06/07/2022 9:23:46 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack )
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