My duty as a Civitate has forced me to bring Darth Wong before the Curia to be censured. Darth Wong has a very agressive style of posting which is violating the TOS and currently has two unexpired warning and if he is given another will be put before Ostrakon. I believed he is in need of corrective action so that he may stay a Civitate and continue to contribute his viewpoint to the site under the Civitate banner.
Evidence:
Originally Posted by DWIf you're going to spew outright lies and pretend that you've never heard of a scientific theory regarding the origin of species, there's not much constructive discussion that can possibly take place.Well sorry, but you're a pampered suburban middle-class person with no real troubles, and you're just trying to manufacture excuses to cry "martyr".How is it "petty name calling?" I didn't call anyone any names, unless you think "pampered middle class person" is some sort of scathing insult. Perhaps you just don't want to admit the truth, which is that I'm right about your desire to manufacture a belief that you are a persecuted minority. There's certainly no evidence of this persecution, and your own attempts to provide examples of it only demonstrate the exaggeration that I'm talking about.Compared to his ridiculous claims of persecution? Yes, he's pampered. I'm not trying to get "out of a bind"; I'm pointing out that Turbo is imagining things.
I do live a pampered life. All of us in the comfortable western middle-class world do, although it appears that not all of us are willing to admit it. The fact that you take umbrage at the truth does not justify your behaviour. I did not, however, marry an atheist.
I seriously cannot believe how massively you have overreacted to the word "pampered". If you were trying to make yourself look more reasonable than me, this was not the way to do it.Turbo, I said that you have a desire to invent a persecution complex. I pointed out that people have probably been telling you this all your life. If you want to believe that this means I'm calling you a liar, so be it, but I think it's more of a psychological conditioning problem; you look for signs of persecution, the same way young black men look for signs of racism. And naturally, both of you inevitably find it.(Fortunately for Darth Wong, H&G did not save the Troll/Flame)Are you trying to tell me that reminding people of the rules of logic and calling for the mass-murder of millions of people are similar?
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Tell me, do you even know what an ad-hominem fallacy is? "You're biased, therefore you're being illogical" is an ad-hominem fallacy (and it happens to be one which you made a career out of using against me). But "You are misrepresenting the argument, therefore you are being illogical" is not.
All of this evidence proves that Darth Wong's posting style is not worthy of a Civitate, but not worthy of an Ostrakon either so a Curial Censure is in order.Let me describe Evan's argument in these terms:
"I have a black box here in my hands. This black box has magical powers, and it can heal you. Unfortunately, I can't provide a shred of evidence that it actually works, apart from the fact that I say it does. I also have friends who say it works, but they can't demonstrate this under controlled conditions either. But you can't prove it doesn't work, can you? And you don't know what's inside the black box, so you don't know how it works, so you have no valid argument against it!"
We have an old saying for this kind of black box. It's called "snake oil", and it's the same thing whether 19th century hucksters are selling it or 21st century priests.