Posted: Sep 18, 2011 1:17 pm
advaitya wrote:cavarka9 wrote:advaitya wrote:
I am not in the "characterization" business. You are. Don't blame me for your limited intellect and failure to come up with a "rational" framework to "characterize". My job is point and ridicule your "rational methodology" to malign an entire community with 1) microscopic sample, and 2) without ascertaining the motivations and knowledge of this limited sample.
No.
Can I tomorrow convert to islam and spout nonsense on its behalf and would the world buy that?
thanks, you have explained yourself and more importantly demonstrated something which I see in Hindus,
no institution = no blame!.
epepke has added something very important by pointing to "maintaining the fiction". someone should enter that in wiki argument tricks list.
So essentially you've got nothing to say on the merits of the argument. All you're capable of is to take a little sample (random and unscientific) and draw conclusions based on that. Because clearly that's how "rationalists" roll?
X does not need to convince Y, X only needs to argue with Y and hopes that the people reading so can decide for themselves, hoping that they reason.