http://fairandunbalanced.com/blog1.php?disp=comments en-US http://backend.userland.com/rss 60 Tue, 24 Jul 2012 22:33:09 +0000 Ryan [Visitor] c26796@http://www.fairandunbalanced.com/ "Since the conclusion is so self-evidently true, any string of reasoning that leads to it has to be valid."<br /> <br /> We all rationalize to some extent, though awareness of the tendency reduces the frequency. However, the intelligent among us have standards that allow them to rationalize more effectively, which is why it can be more difficult to convince intelligent people that they are wrong.<br /> <br /> This particular argument is far from effective, so you can guess what I think of the one who made it and those who accept it.
We all rationalize to some extent, though awareness of the tendency reduces the frequency. However, the intelligent among us have standards that allow them to rationalize more effectively, which is why it can be more difficult to convince intelligent people that they are wrong.

This particular argument is far from effective, so you can guess what I think of the one who made it and those who accept it.]]> http://fairandunbalanced.com/blog1.php/2012/07/23/dreams-from-his-radical-america-hating-f#c26796 Tue, 24 Jul 2012 17:42:53 +0000 JMyste [Visitor] c26790@http://www.fairandunbalanced.com/ OK, so Mr. Paine did not definitively prove the charge. However, the evidence he produced suggests this: <br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br />





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