I married no true Scotsman. That always makes me laugh, but yep, an attempt to retain an unreasoned assertion, that’s certainly him. Unreasoned, unreasonable, and also having Scottish ancestors. It’s probably hardwired in his DNA.
I am not complaining by any means, it can be quite charming. Hubby’s no true Scotsman will go something like this. He will announce “Real men don’t eat broccoli,” and I will point to all the real men that do, so he will simply declare, “they aren’t real men.” Total fallacy. A bit of rhetorical trickery, having absolutely nothing to do with the facts before him.
For those who don’t know, often when you try to chat with people on the internet you wind up trapped in these odd, irrelevant, and irrational rules of conversation. I have a vague knowledge of debate, some slight understanding of dialectic, rhetoric, logic…but than there is what you encounter on the internet, this odd slang form of conversation that makes people feel so smart, but seems to have no rhyme or reason to it. People start shrieking rather emotionally, strawman! Total strawman! No true Scotsman! Scotsman! Godwin’s law! Somebody call a cop, bad speak here! Speech rules broken! Disregard this entire premise, I call foul, they’re cheating…
Sheesh, I didn’t know one could cheat while having an informal conversation on the internet. A foul is when you elbow someone in the face while they’re trying to shoot a basket. It is not having a major anxiety attack over some rules of speech that you plan to change five seconds from now.
In case I haven’t made it perfectly clear, I am so not impressed with this kind of nonsense. As far as I am concerned your rhetoric and dialectic got so bored with your redundancy, they have now run off with the strawman and you should all just be Godwinned.
The other thing that doesn’t impress me is credentialing. That is when one is making a statement and trying to lend credence to it by claiming, “I have a degree in philosophy!” I don’t care! I’ll try not to hold it against you, okay? What am I supposed to say here? Your assertion makes no sense and does not hold water, but you think I should accept it because you’ve placed letters after your name?
And lastly, this idea that someone is suppressing your free speech and depriving the rest of the world of the right to hear your brilliant, garbled and redundant opinion. Just a hint here, if you’re hollering all over bloggerville about being silenced and censored…..you’re not being silenced and censored. Just saying.
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Wally Fry said:
I have contemplated seeing if I could get banned from another blog, but decided against it.
I did, however, get asked once not even to follow a certain blog. Not sure what that was about.
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insanitybytes22 said:
Ha! Good one, Wally. I seldom get an opportunity to contemplate such things, they just happen.
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Citizen Tom said:
I have been banned from a couple blogs. Disagree with the host. Make more logical sense than the host. Banned.
What is funny is that all the host has to do is not reply. All I want is the last word.
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Wally Fry said:
Last word…the blogger’s disease for sure.
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KIA said:
I have yet to ban anyone. I have asked two to unfollow, not because I didn’t want them reading what I say, but so as not to have their blogs ‘associated’ to mine that they obviously disagreed with. Also… Their penchant for banning and deleting my comments.
But again, I’ve never banned or blocked anyone, not even wally. You are more than welcome, as I have repeatedly said, to comment or question anything on any of my posts
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carlalouise89 said:
I love this!!
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carlalouise89 said:
Reblogged this on The Melodramatic Confessions of Carla Louise and commented:
This really adds into my post about “But They Will Never Take Our Freedom!” Some people really need do need to understand the difference between censorship and freedom of speech.
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insanitybytes22 said:
Thank you for reading and for the reblog, much appreciated. 😉
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christinewjc said:
You wrote:
“…often when you try to chat with people on the internet you wind up trapped in these odd, irrelevant, and irrational rules of conversation.”
Sounds like Facebook! That’s why I left. For me, it was a total waste of time!
Love the “meme” graphic!
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sophiaschildren said:
True enough. I chuckled at the Inigo Montoya image and quote. The Princess Bride is rich with those!
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insanitybytes22 said:
Inigo Montoya is one of my all time favorites. 😉
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pamelaparizo said:
I couldn’t stop laughing. This is great. I had someone pull the credentials thing on me quite a few times. A “Bible scholar” who thought I had no input into scripture simply because I didn’t possess a PhD from the finest schools taught by the highest scholars….blah, blah, blah. As if Peter and the Apostles did. 🙂
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Mike Ridenour said:
People are free to disagree with me. I’m beginning to get the idea that I am rarely, if ever, absolutely right. Just the other day, another man and I disagreed during a conversation. I stopped talking and thought about what he said. In the past, I would NEVER have done that! I would have pushed forward espousing my partial truth as fact. Instead, I found that I agreed with some things that broadened my narrow view of what was right.
I now know that I need to dig even deeper to see how many other things I might not be right about.
The truth doesn’t exist for me to use against other people, it is the way I grow and it works in the lives of others without me enforcing it at all.
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insanitybytes22 said:
Amen, Mike. I like that. 🙂
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