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Originally posted by Leonhard View PostAw shucks you make me all proud of my country.Atheism is the cult of death, the death of hope. The universe is doomed, you are doomed, the only thing that remains is to await your execution...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbnueb2OI4o&t=3s
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Originally posted by seer View PostDenmark is cool, they were more cool though when they were Vikings...The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
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Originally posted by DivineOb View PostSo you won't explain your argument and now you want to act like an obvious joke was meant seriously to change the subject. As I said, the argument can't be defended. Cars kill, cars bad!
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Originally posted by Sparko View PostShow me one person who didn't understand the analogy but yourself.
And honestly my mom feels the same as me on this. She *loved* Dr. Phil for decades until he made the same comparison in his interview from ~1 month ago and now she's finished with him :).
This article explains why it's a bad analogy. The first few paragraphs are out of date since the number to Coronavirus deaths now exceeds 75K (1.25x Vietnam, 25x 9/11) which only strengthens the second half of the article.
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Originally posted by DivineOb View PostI *understand* the analogy you are trying to make. I *don't* understand how the two things are actually analogous.
And honestly my mom feels the same as me on this. She *loved* Dr. Phil for decades until he made the same comparison in his interview from ~1 month ago and now she's finished with him :).
This article explains why it's a bad analogy. The first few paragraphs are out of date since the number to Coronavirus deaths now exceeds 75K (1.25x Vietnam, 25x 9/11) which only strengthens the second half of the article.
But from what I could see of the article, it wasn't talking about the same analogy I was using. I was using the car analogy as a comparison and rejection of your idiotic comparison of covi-19 deaths to all of the various war deaths which you tried to use as a club to claim that we were somehow uncompassionate about the covid deaths, you ignorant basement-dwelling twit.
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Originally posted by Sparko View Posteveryone else does.
Can't read it since it's behind a paywall, but I am touched the WP would write an article directed at me!
But from what I could see of the article, it wasn't talking about the same analogy I was using. I was using the car analogy as a comparison and rejection of your idiotic comparison of covi-19 deaths to all of the various war deaths which you tried to use as a club to claim that we were somehow uncompassionate about the covid deaths, you ignorant basement-dwelling twit.
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Originally posted by Sparko View Posteveryone else does.
Can't read it since it's behind a paywall, but I am touched the WP would write an article directed at me!
But from what I could see of the article, it wasn't talking about the same analogy I was using. I was using the car analogy as a comparison and rejection of your idiotic comparison of covi-19 deaths to all of the various war deaths which you tried to use as a club to claim that we were somehow uncompassionate about the covid deaths, you ignorant basement-dwelling twit.Last edited by DivineOb; 05-08-2020, 02:39 PM.
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Originally posted by Sparko View PostOK I found a way to read the article. LOL. This is what is known as trying to pick an analogy apart by taking it too literally and missing the entire point. and it indeed was not the point I was making with YOUR comparison DoB with war deaths. In fact, I could use the exact same argument the writer uses against "automobile" deaths with YOUR analogy of covid-19 deaths to "war deaths"
Regardless, you said this
worldwide 1.25 Million automobile related deaths per year, every year. We need to ban cars. And roads.
One can infer only that you're comparing the extreme measures taken to "flatten the curve" to what those measures might look like when applied to car fatalities (and which was the topic of the thread). That's the analogy addressed by the article. Of course you're too magnanimous to quote the relevant passage and embarrass me, which is appreciated.
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Originally posted by DivineOb View PostOne can infer onlyThe first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
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Originally posted by DivineOb View PostThis is the third time you've called me a basement dweller. The house I currently own and am sitting in right now is worth ~$2m and soon will be expanded to a 5 (edited since I miscounted) bedroom / 3 bath palace. Find a better insult.
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Originally posted by DivineOb View PostWhat analogy did I make? I was just comparing the total (and increasing) Coronavirus deaths to other events which killed large numbers of Americans. Obviously a virus is nothing like a war.
Regardless, you said this
worldwide 1.25 Million automobile related deaths per year, every year. We need to ban cars. And roads.
One can infer only that you're comparing the extreme measures taken to "flatten the curve" to what those measures might look like when applied to car fatalities (and which was the topic of the thread). That's the analogy addressed by the article. Of course you're too magnanimous to quote the relevant passage and embarrass me, which is appreciated.Last edited by Sparko; 05-08-2020, 03:00 PM.
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Originally posted by Cow Poke View PostI love it when people correctly use imply and infer!Geislerminian Antinomian Kenotic Charispneumaticostal Gender Mutualist-Egalitarian.
Beige Federalist.
Nationalist Christian.
"Everybody is somebody's heretic."
Social Justice is usually the opposite of actual justice.
Proud member of the this space left blank community.
Would-be Grand Vizier of the Padishah Maxi-Super-Ultra-Hyper-Mega-MAGA King Trumpius Rex.
Justice for Ashli Babbitt!
Justice for Matthew Perna!
Arrest Ray Epps and his Fed bosses!
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