**Bear: Illogical and still wrong

[BEBT84D@prodigy.com ( RICK MILLER)]

    Bear, you continue to distort my arguments! I only need a few 
arguments here.
To the line by line:

Bear wrote:
>Rick, now I'm downright scared. I never said that whites can't do 
narratives. The Weber
>debater most instrumental in the development of narratives was 
caucasian. My lecture
>on narratives was delivered to a predominately caucasian audience. I 
encouraged
>everyone to try them, remember? Wasn't I white?


   Bear, nice distortion. My opposition was to an advocacy you made 
during our 
personal conversation, and NOT to your lecture. During our personal 
discussion this summer,
you said that "Only minorities should be allowed to use narratives in 
a *LEGAL SETTING*".
   You still have failed to justify this exclusionary advocacy on 
your behalf (Legal Setting).
Your lecture was excellent, as were the others, this is not where I 
have the problem. I
would hope that in the future you could attack my ARGUMENTS and not 
resort to
Straw person fallacies (misrepresenting an opponents arguments, 
usually for the purpose
of making it easier to attack).


snip..(irrelevant to my response)
>What are the false alternatives, Rick? That fallacy generally
>refers to those trying to characterize a situation as having only
>two alternate, and opposing, solutions.

   Bear, when you assume that only "Conservative allies" will
"bombard" you, you assume too few alternatives (Fallacy of false 
alternatives)
As I indicated on my earlier post, one doesn't have to be a 
conservative to 
see the error in your argumentation, one only has to appreciate logic 
and its
application in argumentation. I disagree with you, and I am a 
Libertarian- MANY
people also disagree with you, not all of them are conservative.


>Aren't you just as guilty of that, Rick?

   Bear, when I follow the most logical course, that which follows 
the
principles of Logic, I would have to say no (everything is debatable 
though).(-:
Equality, which I support, seems most Logical. To discriminate is bad,
 whether in
the past or done now.  Your defense of "Positive racism" (your words) 
is illogical.


snip...(irrelevant to my response)
>If it walks like a duck...

  It could be Bear trying to be a duck. (-: To assume that it is a 
duck just
because it walks like a duck is fallacious (False alternatives).

  Bear, it is not to late to turn over a new leaf. Santa still might 
send you
a Christmas gift if your nice (or you could always bribe him).  (-:

STILL WAITING FOR AN APOLOGY FROM BEAR!!

Rick-

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