tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post3640624245549114051..comments2024-03-27T03:19:11.216-04:00Comments on Assistant Village Idiot: ArguableAssistant Village Idiothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-9987529251307442862020-02-23T21:51:18.293-05:002020-02-23T21:51:18.293-05:00Arguably you people are full of it. That's jus...Arguably you people are full of it. That's just my point of view. If you challenge my reasoning I might cut you off by saying that we will have to agree to disagree. I might even bail out of the argument with a pull of the nevermind ripcord. Arguing is fun.Jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08111391338812214765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-11946810013490868882020-02-23T19:31:45.923-05:002020-02-23T19:31:45.923-05:00Plus, it's just fun. I can't stress that e...Plus, it's just fun. I can't stress that enough.Assistant Village Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-35139183927134653852020-02-23T19:30:40.479-05:002020-02-23T19:30:40.479-05:00Sam, you will find it much more amusing to pay som...Sam, you will find it much more amusing to pay some attention. Many of them, especially those who are a bit older, were brought up with better values and greater honesty than they are now exposed to. They let things slip in their initial expression, then have to double back furiously when they get attacked for making reasonable statements. As with Russians reading <i>Pravda</i> in the 70s and 80s, you can learn a lot by watching exactly how the steps of the dance proceed. It can give you a great read on where political correctness is going next, and what center-left group is about to be banished to the outer darkness.Assistant Village Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-14092874040260925052020-02-23T15:59:30.820-05:002020-02-23T15:59:30.820-05:00It's the NYT, and as I always say, I detest, d...It's the NYT, and as I always say, I detest, despise, and distrust everything in the NYT. (Also, the WaPoo.)Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-91449866602033327692020-02-23T13:50:29.803-05:002020-02-23T13:50:29.803-05:00You have nicely clarified an important and insidio...You have nicely clarified an important and insidious rhetorical sleight. Academic literature uses it all the time. "Whipsnade and Grifter (2016) have argued . . .," or the even shiftier (and lazier) "It might be argued . . ." Students are easily taken in by this since they assume that to argue is to argue cogently and with good evidence. Although all of them were recently teenagers, and were therefore presumably making the specious arguments you allude to, we professors have to work hard and explain that one can argue for any proposition, and that almost all propositions have been argued for. That they can be and have been argued for means nothing. JMSmithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14502377102987849260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-61810751943701308212020-02-23T11:39:07.885-05:002020-02-23T11:39:07.885-05:00Is Burger King teaming up with the NYT for this? B...Is Burger King teaming up with the NYT for this? Because I saw BK advertising the "Impossible Whopper". ;þKororahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06208444799799287420noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-65567375174285170082020-02-22T22:53:56.318-05:002020-02-22T22:53:56.318-05:00This is why duels historically commenced with the ...This is why duels historically commenced with the invocation, “May God defend the right.”Grimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-761279016062703132020-02-22T20:11:58.878-05:002020-02-22T20:11:58.878-05:00If I'm a rational being, then my arguments mus...If I'm a rational being, then my arguments must partake of that rationality, right? So if you treat me as a rational being and argue with me, my position must at least be plausible. And if you don't, I have a legitimate grievance which gives me the moral high ground. Win either way.jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01792036361407527304noreply@blogger.com