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But you see, lil' punkin', what I was really saying was ... well ... I just don't want you to worry about the protests, OK? There really aren't any. Nobody is going to get lynched and the strawmen are just figures of speech.
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Sorry, DEAR, but you were the one with the "onward march" statement. I just ran with the imagery. My reference to a "straw man" referred to your strawman argument where you changed the argument to something that everyone could agree upon (child porn is bad!) in an attempt to discredit the unrelated argument.
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The Catholic Church, or, people purportedly speaking for them have come out and warned these parents against taking their children to the movie. That's all.
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Sure. And I still think their reasoning is baseless, for reasons I've already said in this thread.
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And you know what, despite what you might think, these parents do not have to view the film to come to this conclusion. Nope. They are free to do what they want.
And you are too!
That's right -- you!
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You're really working on this type of argument technique aren't you? Yes, of course the parents are free to do what they want. Everyone can agree on that. So I guess you've "won" again!
(And I never argued your first sentence, so you're putting words into my mouth also *sigh*)
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Oh yeh, one more thing: now, I do not where you get off responding to me as you did. I only questioned if the word, "idiot" was not a little strong. I can see you are clearly passionate about something, Chern' --- I am just not sure what.
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You responded in a manner that read like you not only took great offense to what I said, but that you indeed were one of the "idiots".... err "fundamentally misguided" persons that were protesting the film. So really, pardon me for responding in kind.