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Originally Posted by DaveMatrix
I'm all for someone stating their opinion, but slicing up a post line by line, then stating why each line is wrong is a juvenile tactic at best.
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Juvenile tactic? Are you serious? I'm supposed to let you make all the ridiculous assertions you please without pointing them all out and challenging you to support them? Perhaps I just find it odd that you want to tell everyone else your opinion, but become upset when another member challenges your views.
In your particular case, it doesn't seem like your dogmatic beliefs are especially harmful: they tend to be confined to a rather abstract, metaphysical realm. My concern is actually more with your methodology rather than your beliefs. Imagine a conversation like the following one that is consistent with your methodology, but uses wildly different beliefs:
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Originally Posted by Hypothetical Conversation
A. God hates fags. He is upset that people in the United States are becomming so tolerant of sodomites and has decided to punish us with natural disasters and wars in order to destroy our hubris.
B. That is a ridiculous statement. How can you possibly claim to know the will of god? How do you know he hates "fags"? How can you prove we are being punished? I would love to see some evidence for these outlandish claims.
A. Listen, that's just my opinion. Geez - I'm all for someone stating their opinion, but slicing up a post line by line, then stating why each line is wrong is a juvenile tactic at best.
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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
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