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In reply to the discussion: I Wouldn't Have Believed Things Like This Do Happen...Until I Witnessed It Myself. [View all]hfojvt
(37,573 posts)take for example, something else that I know almost nothing about - NASCAR racing. Yet because it is on the local news I know something about what happened yesterday. One racer deliberately crashed into another, and then after than there were various brawls between the racers and pit crews and such.
Now I am of the opinion that a racer should face an extra penalty for deliberately causing a crash. I don't believe I really need to know the rules of NASCAR in order to have that opinion. It is also nothing even close to a rebuttal of my opinon if somebody "argues" with me by saying
"you apparently do not know anything about the rules of NASCAR" and proceeds to explain that under the rules of NASCAR it is perfectly legal to cause a crash, etc., etc., etc.
You see - what the rule actually says is kinda irrelevant in a discussion of "what the rule SHOULD say".
And unfortunately, what seems to be stereotypically liberal is feeling the need to insult people who disagree with you. And also thinking that this represents either a rational argument or a civil discussion.