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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: TigerPaw who wrote (9955)1/27/2006 11:54:51 AM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 541358
 
This is known as "strawman" reasoning.

I don't think that's a strawman at all. He was just trying to frame the options for explaining your arguments. My own tentative potential explanations for your position is either that you favor the notion of equality of outcome or that you harbor an inherent distrust of capitalism or both.

We don't often see examples of people legitimately trying to understand alien points of view so we are not as familiar as in a better world we would be with what that looks like. When we try to understand alien points of view, we have to probe and turn things over until we can understand them in a way that makes sense to us, which is not a perfect replica from the way the owner of the position understands them. It cannot be, obviously, because if we thought that way, the position wouldn't be alien and we wouldn't have to try so hard to understand it.

So he should enjoy his success, but that doesn't mean he deserves a dynasty while others who have contributed as much to the economy and fabric of the nation get only tears.

I hear what you're saying but it doesn't resonate with me so I'm still struggling to make sense of it. I imagine that Tim is doing something similar. So what looks to you like a strawman isn't, it's a kind of pinging, a way of asking "is this what you mean or is that what you mean" as we try to close in on it.
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