03-06-2019, 12:06 PM
(03-05-2019, 05:35 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Sorry for any offense, but it is just frustrating to try and have any sort of discussion with a person who has his own secret definitions that none of us know.
I'm sure it's very frustrating to debate with someone you feel is deliberately misstating your position or ignoring obvious facts.
Quote:How do you expect us to understand anything you try to say when we are used to using commonly accepted definitions that other people use to communicate their ideas?
Let's examine this question a bit. You're engaging in a semantic argument over the word "strong". There are numerous possible definitions for strong. Does this mean physically powerful, mentally resilient, forceful of will, having a moral code of behavior one adheres to religiously or possessing an intense personality? Luckily, in this example, we have a further set of words to guide us, that being the "creates easy times" follow up. Now, what possible definitions of "strong" would lend itself to a person who can create "easy times"? Possibly all of them? More likely some than others? Quite demonstrably, Fred, there is no one definition of the word "strong" that one could look at and easily state, "this is the one we're talking about"!
So, we are forced to once again rely on the following words, "creates easy times". Do you feel that Hitler, Stalin or Mussolini created easy times? Your argument would lend one to believe this was the case. If this is true I had no idea you thought so highly of men who murdered millions and nurtured some of the darkest ideology the world has ever seen. If this is not the case then maybe you need to concede that your knee jerk attempt to paint someone with a bigoted brush has instead seen you inadvertently coating yourself. If you are so inclined as to admit such I would happily believe the assertion that you do not find Hitler, Mussolini or Stalin to be admirable, or "strong", men.
I eagerly await your reply.
