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- From: henken@ocf.berkeley.edu (Matthew J. Henken)
- Newsgroups: alt.peeves
- Subject: Re: feminists in bondage
- Message-ID: <1ejpveINN7ji@agate.berkeley.edu>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 22:48:14 GMT
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- In article <#qnqyq-@lynx.unm.edu> hillman@carina.unm.edu (Dan Hillman) writes:
- >Charles Parr writes:
- >>
- >>But what peeves me, what really gets up my nose about it, what
- >>really makes me genuinely angry, is the obvious corollary to
- >>their censoring attitude:
- >>
- >>"You, being a man, are obviously a pig. Your motives are automatically
- >>those of a rapist murderer, and therefore you are not allowed to have
- >>an opinion which dissents from ours. We are the sole arbiters of what
- >>is acceptable, so if we don't like it, that's the end of the discussion.
- >>Knuckle under, or you are simply a sexist male with all the morals
- >>of a diseased slime mold."
- >
- >Actually it's a bit more formal than that. Perhaps Matthew studied this
- >more extensively, but I seem to remember it going something like:
- >
- >A. Socrates is a man
- >B. All men are rapist pig-dogs
- >Therefore
- >C. Socrates is a rapist pig-dog.
-
- You're right that it is a formal argument, but unfortunately you parody the
- position in such a way that you make it seem as though all those who conclude
- that X is a rapist pig-dog must hold principle (B) above, "All men
- are rapist pig-dogs." The preferred form of the argument, among those who
- do not own up to prinicple (B) is:
-
- Socrates is a rapist pig-dog.
- You are a rapist pig-dog.
- -----------------------------
- Therefore, Socrates is a rapist pig-dog and you are a rapist pig-dog.
-
- The advantage of this argument is that one can deny that one thinks that
- all men are rapist pig-dogs and thus seem reasonable on Donahue or
- Oprah, and yet be able to conclude about any man in particular that *he*
- is a rapist pig-dog.
-
- Quite a powerful tool, logic.
-
- Peeve: Oprah, Donahue, Geraldo, Sally Jesse Raphael, Maury Povich, Montel
- Williams.
-
- Peeve: Robert Tilton, Robert Schuler, Orel Roberts.
-
- !Peeve: Dr. Gene Scott
-
- Matthew J. Henken :-{<Peeve: The contents of the articles in this thread
- don't live up to the Subject: line>]
- henken@ocf.berkeley.edu
-