> ChuckG wrote: > When you use the whole "But McCain did/does it" as a means of justification,
No. And the short answer is because you reveal the hypocrisy of these kinds of charges. The longer answer is that it reveals position vs. principle. A common tactic in politics - one used by Robert almost every day - is to try to dupe the listener into outrage over what appears to be principle when you're actually simply pushing position that you've manipulated the fact on to appear as principle. For example, Robert's outrage at a perceived free speech violation. This would appear to be a principled argument but, in fact, it's not. We know this because we we've watched Pres Bush shred the Constitution for the last 8 years and we've watched Robert defend every slice. So when he shows outrage over some perceived speech violation by the other candidate, it's position vs. principle. The goal of revealing people position - when they're couching it in principle - is to show the false logic of accusation and thus to discredit it. But many people don't understand these distinctions and thus think it's justification; it's not. The questions are in the following order: 1.) What's the principle? 2.) What's the deviation from the principle? i.e., how bad is the violation? 3.) What's the motivation of the accuser? To defend the principle or to cast dispersions on someone else over fake principle. 99.9% of the time, for example, Robert is simply using mock-principle to cast dispersions. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:277690 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
