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Originally Posted by Skybird
Unbelievable, this amount of haughtiness. I feel slightly ashamed that I allowed to be deceived by you for so many years. My failure.
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Your failure was your poor argument technique. Your reliance on fallacy to make your argument is what did you in. Even when you have a good point, your poor understanding of discourse negates that point. I would suggest reading up on argumentative technique. It will do you a lot of good.
Take, for example, your comparison of me to that senator. I never said or implied anything of the sort, and yet you wished to frame me as the senator. That's a classical strawman. Some light reading:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man
You've done it several times over our discourse as well. It, in fact, is one of your favorite techniques. Unfortunately, it is a dishonest technique. Take what I said about what I said about what I percieved to be your view on trauma by contrast. I said that it was my impression. I never claimed full knowledge. Therein lies the difference.
I've seen too many students with your attitude, Skybird. You are so convinced that you know everything that you are unable to see the your own error, or try to put yourself in the other's shoes. It does make me sad, and I speak in kindness to you when I say that I wish there was more that I could do for you. You have so much potential as a human being and as an intellectual, but it is squandered by your stated attitude. That makes me sad, it really does.