Reply #173: Straw man.

[Sanctimonious_Liberal]

This thread isn't about pharmaceuticals. By trying to twist it into that, you're a) suggesting that all teachers are hellbent on getting all childred dependent on Ritalin, which is horseshit, and b) that since we're not not more outraged at a) than we are at what this thread is actually about, then it's OK for kids to dose teachers because they're doing it in self defense or something.

Actually, both a) and b) above are horseshit as well. How do you like having your arguments mischaracterized and then painted back on you? Sucks, don't it?

I'll grant you that far too many drugs are foisted on kids to ill effect for the wrong reasons. My wife, a teacher, and the vast majority of her collegues would agree as well, rendering your straw man point moot.

The fact is that this thread is about some KIDS who dosed a TEACHER with a drug without his knowledge and against his will. Where is the logic in asking someone who thinks that's wrong why they are insufficiently outraged over a completely unrelated issue?