To: new cruelty
What evidence do you have, other than reductio ad adsurdum? The notion of securing our borders and controlling immigration is hardly untenable.I'm not sure what you mean. Tiff would not disagree with you about borders.
282 posted on
05/20/2003 11:54:39 AM PDT by
tame
(Don't blame my High School. It's the Aspartame.)
To: tame
You are not sure what I mean when I asked what evidence you have that tiff was being sarcastic?
You stated you knew for a fact that tiffany was employing reductio ad adsurdum. The comments were absurd, true, but to what avail? Tiffany's post ran contrary to the opinions of others. If, as you state, this was simply reducing the argument to the absurd, what is absurd about this issue of illegal immigration? Is it absurd to think the problem can be resolved? Likely not, as you stated, 'tiff would not disagree' that this issue is untenable. So what point was being made? Or were the comments made in jest, simply meant to pester others?
So, I ask again, only in another fashion, how do you know for a fact that tiffany was employing reductio ad adsurdum? I expect you must know tiffany, but I wasn't sure, so I ask.
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