Having a rough day, are we? I attacked you after you attacked me and I certainly did defend my position, did you miss the "I asked a question". I also said I believed Monster had supported or made a similar comment in regards to blacks-people/voting for Obama, so it wasn't me just randomly saying it and I even admitted I could have been wrong, i.e. it could have been someone else who said/supported it (end of post #32).
Characterizing anyone who holds the view you presented (if a black person votes for Obama, it's because of skin color) as a "loon" makes your question a
loaded one, as it assumes anyone with that view is a loon.
It is also a statisical fact that many blacks are voting for Obama because he is black. It may well even be a majority of blacks who are voting in the presidential election are doing so because of race. It is therefore, not an absurd claim to make.
But you exagurated that view into "if a black person votes for Obama, it's because of skin color". That statement inherently assumes that all black people who vote for the president this year are doing so because of skin color. It is an exaguration, and thus a
hasty generalization. I doubt Thomas Sowell or Walter Williams are voting against Obama because of skin color.
If you ment the comment as a joke, then it would have been appropriate to put a smiley fact behind the statement. Because that isn't there, it is appropriate to take it as a legitimate question.
The fact that it is a question does not negate it from being fallacious.
You said I was "intellectually bankrupt", don't spin now and say it wasn't an insult in regards to my intelligence.
I am not spinning anything. I was referencing your demonstrated lack of honesty and integrity which I have called you on numerous times on this forum. Your take on what I said here is inconsistant with all that history on this forum.
It also was ment in a facetious manner, hence the smiley at the end. Apparantly I hit a little too close to home for you...
You also need to keep in mind that it was a response to your insult of me and all "right wingers" as "loons". So your claim that I insulted you first is flat out wrong.
My first post was simply an absurd, intentionally loaded question to show the aburdity of your question. "What evidence do you have for that absurd exaguration and mischaracterization?". Illustrating absurdity with absurdity.
The fact that you often claim (and wiki-cite) these fallacies in error says a lot about you. Maybe you should stop arbitrarily throwing them in a last ditch effort to support your position.
I am
very careful to identify fallacious arguments accurately. After months, you
still haven't been able to show that I have not been accurate in any identification of a fallacious argument (without mischaracterization, or otherwise making a fallacious argument in the process), yet you love to claim that I am.
If an argument is fallacious, then there is no reason to waste any time on it outside of pointing out that it is not logical. Just because many (if not most) of your arguments happen to be fallacious and instead of debating the point being made I only take the time to point out that they are fallacious does not mean it is a "last ditch effort" on my part. I simply don't want to waste my time on an argument that is illogical.
Pointing out the fallacy of an opposing argument does not support my position, it simply shows that the opposing argument is crap. The argument may be able to be made in a logical manner that disproves my argument and provides an accurate critique of my position, but if the argument is fallacious, then it inherently cannot do that and is a waste of time.
Shining a light on fallacious arguments says nothing bad about me. You have to spin and mischaracterize my motives and accuracy in doing so before it does say anything bad about me. That is rather telling.
Heck, it was
you who got me focused on fallacious arguments in the first place, when you claimed that Ben Stein was making an
ad hitlerum argument in his movie "Expelled". I had never heard that term before and had to look it up to see if that characterization of Stein's argument was accurate (it wasn't) and weather it was relevant. That got me looking at the logic of other aguments and if they were fallacious.
So if you wanna blame anyone for my focus on the fallacious, take a look in the mirror.
Just a suggestion, how about you stop smearing me and turn that energy into making
logical arguments instead.