Warren,
On Apr 14, 2005, at 3:58 PM, Dave Land wrote:
With "this thing is invalid," the speaker draws a line in the sand and
throws down an implied challenge to wrong-thinking "this thing is valid"
believers.
That's correct. That could maybe be why I called the attack on Iraq
"unjustifiable", eh? Maybe to me it really, genuinely is. Maybe to me
those who believe otherwise really are wrong-thinking. And maybe I've
got the guts to say so, rather than pretend I don't think I'm correct in
my views.
Is it pretense to leave open the possibility that I don't know something completely?
I am tired of the implication that those who choose to be careful with their language are gutless or liars or both. I heard too much of that during the last election. I think it is the framing device that underlies the anti-political correctness statements.
Dave
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