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Politics : Foreign Policy Discussion Thread
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To: TimF who wrote (6761)4/19/2004 8:03:46 PM
From: Hawkmoon  Read Replies (1) of 15987
 
If you say we could/should end world hunger by telling everyone who doesn't have food to eat rocks; the fact that I don't have an alternative plan to end world hunger doesn't mean that I should refrain from criticizing your plan.

That's not criticizing the "plan". It would be criticizing the very basic logic of a belief that rocks constitute a viable food source, which it obviously is not.

But when someone presents a logical, and potentially viable, solution to a problem, and the other party chooses to criticize it; is it not logical that such criticism should be followed up by an alternative solution?

After all, if only one person is responsible for creating potential solutions, while the other bears no responsibility, or intellectual burden, for creating an alternative, then the debate will quickly digress to personalities and partisanship.

Hawk
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