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Well, I'm fully ready to have a debate with ace, it's just that he doesn't tend to engage with arguments. He instead prefers to debate the validity of premises, using such tools as red herrings, false equivalences, and straightforward confusion.
And so everything becomes a false start, or it devolves into an argument about something unrelated, such as the differences between the behaviour patterns of cats and dogs.
It's not exactly the same mode that Palin operates in, but I can see the parallel. I'm just surprised he hasn't gone on about "time-tested truths" while neglecting to elaborate on just what that might mean.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
Last edited by Baraka_Guru; 01-19-2011 at 10:32 AM..
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