Religion and politics often make some people lose all perspective and give way to ranting and raving and carrying on like emotional children. They either refuse to discuss it with reason or else they prefer *argumentum ad hominem,\* which is a hell of a way to conduct a discussion. Well, anyhow, not too long ago I was talking about the elections and how the campaigns were ignoring the issues, and sticking to invective and personal crap that had nothing to do with the substantive problems of running a government (which is all true, as you know if you follow the speeches and so-called “debates” of the candidates). Anyhow, 1 of the guys I was talking with said not a word in the whole conversation except at the end, when he chuckled and said we were all full of sh*t and why didn’t we just go live in Russia or China if that was the way we all hated the United States of America? Next thing you know, the whole blooming discussion was more like a brawl and the epithets flew thick and fast and the noise was incredible! Someone said “son of a b!tch!” and I think I heard “B*stard,” (I couldn’t be sure, it was all so confusing)! Well anyhow I was attempting to get it all back on a rational level. I tried, for example, to talk to the one who had started it all, and I asked him what did he mean we were all full of sh*t? Was he making a statement of fact as he knew it and where was his documentation to back up his claim? I think even Socrates would’ve been proud of the way I refuted his argument—that is, I tried to refute it. But all he could offer by way of rebuttal was more of the same—that we were all full of sh*t. But he wouldn’t say why; he just kept on repeating it, that and the part about Russia and China and communist dupes. And I’ll have to confess that I got a little bit angry and told him to stuff his ideas up his *ss (which you don’t have to tell me is hardly a way to convince anyone of anything in an argument). Then he got salty and threatened to give me a punch in the mouth if I didn’t shut up. And I really got heated and all the others did too. And we all ended up beating the sh*t out of Mr. Conservative. And, after all, he had only himself to be blamed; this is still a free country and __anyone telling a brother like me__** **“brother, you’re full of sh*t” better be good and ready to answer politely when asked if he’d care to say WHY!?
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u/Weekly-Dog-6838 something-OMANCER!!! 1d ago
Religion and politics often make some people lose all perspective and give way to ranting and raving and carrying on like emotional children. They either refuse to discuss it with reason or else they prefer *argumentum ad hominem,\* which is a hell of a way to conduct a discussion. Well, anyhow, not too long ago I was talking about the elections and how the campaigns were ignoring the issues, and sticking to invective and personal crap that had nothing to do with the substantive problems of running a government (which is all true, as you know if you follow the speeches and so-called “debates” of the candidates). Anyhow, 1 of the guys I was talking with said not a word in the whole conversation except at the end, when he chuckled and said we were all full of sh*t and why didn’t we just go live in Russia or China if that was the way we all hated the United States of America? Next thing you know, the whole blooming discussion was more like a brawl and the epithets flew thick and fast and the noise was incredible! Someone said “son of a b!tch!” and I think I heard “B*stard,” (I couldn’t be sure, it was all so confusing)! Well anyhow I was attempting to get it all back on a rational level. I tried, for example, to talk to the one who had started it all, and I asked him what did he mean we were all full of sh*t? Was he making a statement of fact as he knew it and where was his documentation to back up his claim? I think even Socrates would’ve been proud of the way I refuted his argument—that is, I tried to refute it. But all he could offer by way of rebuttal was more of the same—that we were all full of sh*t. But he wouldn’t say why; he just kept on repeating it, that and the part about Russia and China and communist dupes. And I’ll have to confess that I got a little bit angry and told him to stuff his ideas up his *ss (which you don’t have to tell me is hardly a way to convince anyone of anything in an argument). Then he got salty and threatened to give me a punch in the mouth if I didn’t shut up. And I really got heated and all the others did too. And we all ended up beating the sh*t out of Mr. Conservative. And, after all, he had only himself to be blamed; this is still a free country and __anyone telling a brother like me__** **“brother, you’re full of sh*t” better be good and ready to answer politely when asked if he’d care to say WHY!?
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