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Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by imjustagirl, Jul 14, 2013.

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  1. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    Do you believe that climate change is occurring?
     
  2. Riptide

    Riptide Well-Known Member

    I believe I'm keeping you from your Important Lawyer Work.
     
  3. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    Do you believe that climate change is occurring?
     
  4. Charlie Brown

    Charlie Brown Member

    [​IMG]

    Or as The Atlantic reminds us today:

    To paraphrase the old Sidney Harris cartoon, the formula for weak-sauce goes something like this

    (Forced Labor + Mass Rape)AUCTIONING YOUR CHILDREN
    + (Poll tax + Segregation + Grandfather clause)THE KLAN
    + (Redlining + Blockbusting + Race Riots)CUTTING YOU OUT OF THE NEW DEAL
    - THEN A MIRACLE OCCURS
    = "Meh, you figure it out."
     
  5. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    A hypothetical cardiologist has never had a heart attack.

    Is he disqualified to be an expert on heart attacks?
     
  6. Bodie_Broadus

    Bodie_Broadus Active Member

    Not even close to the same argument. Try again.
     
  7. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    Distinguish them then.
     
  8. Iron_chet

    Iron_chet Well-Known Member

    Hi Dick

    While I agree with you that you do not need to be a former addict to be an expert on addiction I think the point you are trying to make gets lost when you wrap up your arguemnets in word games and one word answer/questions.

    I don't know if it is your rhetorical style and this is how you are in real life or you edit down for message boards but your message routinely gets lost in the douchy way you try to (not always successfully) pin people down on their arguement.
     
  9. Bodie_Broadus

    Bodie_Broadus Active Member

    A writer who happens to spend time with someone who is an addict didn't go to school to study the workings of addiction.

    The MD did.
     
  10. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    This is what you wrote: "Expertise comes from first-hand experience."
     
  11. DanOregon

    DanOregon Well-Known Member

    Bad judgement tends to build on itself. Your judgement is impaired, you make a bad choice. Maybe there was no consequence, so you double down. Then you double down again. etc. Pretty soon you are so far from the shore of "normal" that the "life raft" of drugs doesn't seem so bad. And then one day you look up and think, how the hell did I get here?
     
  12. Bodie_Broadus

    Bodie_Broadus Active Member

    In many cases it does. Just cause you hang out with someone who is an addict doesn't make you an expert.

    I hang out with my dad who is a certified arborist (tree expert) does that make me a tree expert?

    Or better yet, if I interview my dad and write a story about what makes certain trees grow the way they do, I am an expert right?
     
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