My personal space to rant about ambivalence, ignorance, and apathy in the face of moral bankruptcy. Maybe a clever little story or pictures of kittens now and again too. The Kitten pics probably won't happen. Sorry.
30 December 2006
Truth is easy to defend
I'm not sure who this woman is, but I'd sure love to thank her for fighting the good fight in an impossible situation. It's hard to debate against Islam extremism when you're talking AT an Imam.
You know I got to thinking about why this impressed me so much. I mean she does use quite a bit of opinion and bias in forming her argument, and that usually doesn't appeal to me. I can only come up with that she doesn't resort to mythic or supernatural "truths" as her basis. She keeps her examples rooted firmly in this reality, the one we actually exist in (and yes we exist, I refuse to have that argument with anyone).
I think a big part of it, for me, was she didn't deviate at all from her point. The other guy tried to goad her, and she simply repeated her point, as if he were deaf.
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Wow. That was...
Perfect.
You know I got to thinking about why this impressed me so much. I mean she does use quite a bit of opinion and bias in forming her argument, and that usually doesn't appeal to me. I can only come up with that she doesn't resort to mythic or supernatural "truths" as her basis. She keeps her examples rooted firmly in this reality, the one we actually exist in (and yes we exist, I refuse to have that argument with anyone).
I think a big part of it, for me, was she didn't deviate at all from her point. The other guy tried to goad her, and she simply repeated her point, as if he were deaf.
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