July 02, 2005
Some Thoughts:
Chickenhawk Littles
By PennywitIn the discussion below, David Anderson and his correspondents demonstrate the utter folly of name-calling and ad-hominems in debate.
Once one person calls the other a traitor, and the other calls the first a chickenhawk, it's only a hop, skip, and a jump to the first Hitler reference, which, as John Stewart tells us, is demaing to you, demeaning to me ... and demeaning to Hitler.
In his post below, Mr. Anderson assays a chickenhawk lite argument, that is:
Rhetoric is rhetoric, and while I agree that it can get a bit ridiculous at times discussing this issue, I believe the assumption that those most strongly advocating something, should be willing to sacrifice themselves for the cause they advocate... Is not an unreasonable position.
The problem with chickenhawk lite is that it's really no better than the usual "chickenhawk" ad hominem. It's just another attempt to shut down debate by asserting that the opponent's point is invalid because the opponet himself doesn't behave a certain way. Only instead of calling his fellow belligerent "chickenhawk" or "coward," Mr. Anderson would simply call him "hypocrite."
Unfortunately, name-calling, of whatever stripe, is not reasoned debate or discourse, but rather an attempt to choke off the same.
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I'm unable to post on the other threads for some reason. Perhaps David has banned me...
Let's see...I respond to a critique of MY post by asking a series of hypotheticals that pressure the logic of YOUR post, and for my troubles I'm told to be civil by one who follows that up with the accusation that I don't care about the poor, the disenfranchized, civil liberties, this country, the founding fathers, my would-be comrades in arms, etc.
Leaving aside the astounding cognitive dissonance in that sanctimonious rant from someone who can't even be bothered to follow the original link back to my site -- where I make a plea, in the linked post, for civil discourse -- the real irony comes from David, who THANKS said ranter for leveling those accusations at me -- me, a person he has never met and whose site he has obviously never visited -- then HIMSELF makes a blanket statement that because I and others "on the Right" haven't commented on ANOTHER of his posts, we somehow don't really support the war -- all this, even as he pretends to be so above the fray!
My goodness! The PROJECTION!
Bottom line: David is a fraud. He tries to play the hurt deep thinker looking for an honest debate, but what he supports are those rhetorical tropes that aim to attack the character of those he engages rather than to address their points.
In that regard, he's fairly typical of his online brethren.
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