Lord Jim wrote:Mind you, I'm still chuckling at Jim describing circumcision as 'non-invasive'...
Well Sean, In my case, my penis is on the outside of my body....I believe this is generally where it's located on most males....
Perhaps not in
your case....
Look it up Jim. I can't do everything for you...
CP beat me to the punch in pointing out that it was SMF who first initiated these analogies...
Once again Jim, SMF pointed out that they are both surgical procedures. She did not compare the severity/risk/whatever of various procedures.
Leading the witness yout honour!
Once agin Jim, that is beneath you. Quite a low debating tactic to expand somebody's words with into something they never said with not just an assumption but a surety.
So you
don't believe that someone who is "guilty of child mutilation" is unfit to be a parent?
I did not in fact express an opinion either way.
Your contentions about "low debating tactics to expand the meanings of your words" is in fact the low debating tactic afoot here...
Ah! The old switcheroo...
The problem here isn't the meanings of your words being "expanded"; the problem is that you are attempting to avoid having to address the logical implications of your words by making that phony charge....
Not at all. I am a great fan of logic. Use it with me and you'll get it back in spades! Go on, try it...
It leaves you in the rather awkward and silly position of having to somehow try to argue that you don't think that people are who "guilty of child mutilation" should have their children taken away...
While you've got that dictionary handy maybe you could look up 'mutilate' too...
Of course, there's another way to get out of this box that your rhetoric has put you in, (besides trying to disingenuously claim that the logical implications of your words are instead some sort of unfair "expansion" of their meaning)
You could simply re-tract the nonsensical hyperbolic assertions that put you in this fix....
One man's 'fix' of course being another man's 'stance'...
Remember when I used the word 'browbeat' before?
Did you ever work for the West Midlands Serious Crime Squad Jim?
In all seriousness Jim & CP, would you be kind to answer these questions for me:
Do you think that circumcision can be correctly described as a surgical procedure?
Do you think that unnecessarily cutting off part of somebody else's body constitutes mutilation?
The truth is that I have no intention of falling out with either of you over what amounts to nothing more than a difference of opinion so I would really like to be able to decide whether or not to continue with this.
I apologise if that comes across as condescending... it's really not meant to.
Ta.
Why is it that when Miley Cyrus gets naked and licks a hammer it's 'art' and 'edgy' but when I do it I'm 'drunk' and 'banned from the hardware store'?