| This is what I said. > If you can't argue the counter of your own position in the most honest way possible then either you're not prepared or not honest. I didn't say that if your position is on the opposite side of child abuse and you don't want to change your position that you aren't honest. Yes, I'm prepared to try and make the strongest argument possible for things I may not fully understand, until I do. Whatever those things make me feel. Sometimes the strongest arguments have large flaws (mostly moral with you examples) but sometimes we just don't understand the opposing arguments and then just create strawmen to rage against. I'm opposed to this type of irrational emotional behaviour. It causes things like mob violence which I'm very familiar with. So when someone can't articulate the opposing views then they need to be warned or directed to do so. If they refuse and run back to a strawmen then yes they are not honest and obviously not prepared. uMkhonto we Sizwe was a terrorist organization. But they had a very strong argument for why terrorism was an appropriate action. I don't say that I agree with their use of violence, but they had an argument that makes blanket statements like "terrorism is evil" harder to make. |