11-17-2005, 02:41 AM
Hi,
Second, assuming for the moment that your stories about yourself are true, you were an abused kid. You were incapable of distinguishing random physical abuse from corrective punishment. Apparently your years have not increased your wisdom in this matter. Since, by your account, you had damned little affection or tenderness, do you really think an appeal to either emotion would have worked? You take an extreme case, the one you portrayal of your self. You admit, indeed glory, in its deviation from the norm. And then you claim to understand the norm on the basis of that same extreme case. Even if your account of yourself is true, your logic is false. A deviant situation is not an indicator for the norm except, occasionally, in the negative.
As for me, I'd a damned sight sooner discuss this with someone that has something more than doubtful personal stories as a basis for their opinion and argument.
--Pete
Doc,Nov 16 2005, 07:02 PM Wrote:I know when I was a kid, . . .First, 'anecdote' is not the singular of 'data', so even if I credited your story, it would have little weight with me as evidence.
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Second, assuming for the moment that your stories about yourself are true, you were an abused kid. You were incapable of distinguishing random physical abuse from corrective punishment. Apparently your years have not increased your wisdom in this matter. Since, by your account, you had damned little affection or tenderness, do you really think an appeal to either emotion would have worked? You take an extreme case, the one you portrayal of your self. You admit, indeed glory, in its deviation from the norm. And then you claim to understand the norm on the basis of that same extreme case. Even if your account of yourself is true, your logic is false. A deviant situation is not an indicator for the norm except, occasionally, in the negative.
As for me, I'd a damned sight sooner discuss this with someone that has something more than doubtful personal stories as a basis for their opinion and argument.
--Pete
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