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Those were extremely tepid 'ad hominems',
especially considering that they weren't specific
and logically speaking, they're entirely true.
It was never meant to mean that conspiracy doesn't occur
However, it shouldn't be turned to as the most probable explanation as often as it happens in our day and age.
As for the second "ad hominem". Cynical means to think less of people. In this case, to imagine that every politician is bad, or capable of being bought off
that our police officers are all crude
or that our media has no real intention to promote the public good
Only someone so committed to these views is able to blind himself to his own (albeit, unreflected upon) cynicism.
Originally posted by dontreally
Apparently, there are hundreds of people in prominent positions (or perhaps all of them? :wow who don't give a lick about the lives of strangers. Not only do they collude with others in misleading the public about these attacks, but they must also have an impressive dearth of humanistic feelings, like compassion, generosity, love; or for that matter, the oppressive feeling of guilt.
the FBI/DHS
Originally posted by dontreally
reply to post by Pilot
OK, sure, thats a bizarre sight. Now, is it persuasive enough to lead one to believe that it was staged? That the child killed, those who lost limbs - none of them actually exist??
Might I not also point out the Islamic sounding voice of the speaker in the video??? Muslims are by far the most adroit conspiracy theorists - so much so that books and a whole literature has emerged documenting the sheer paranoia that grips so many of them.
I'd highly recommend Daniel Pipes study of conspiracy theories in the Muslim world. If after reading this you still think that the explanation given by this woman has more clout than the possibility that she is firmly of the belief that America/West/Zionists are trying to destroy Islam (a view that has been popular in the middle east for 50+ years now) than there is nothing more I can say.
I believe the two videos you gave, plus all else I have read, simply do not suffice to account for all the other facts of the situation. What about the people killed? Those who lost limbs? The relatives communicating with the media? A snapshot of a guy smacking dust into the air is not going to make me ignore all these other facts; a freeze frame of a guy with seemingly no lacerations (which could be possible) is not going to make me ignore the dozens around who do.
As for the word conspiracy. Weren't the attackers conspiring?
Originally posted by dontreally
1. The less unnecessary assumptions you make, the greater probability that your argument will remain reasonable.
2. The people who throw accusations of conspiracy around aren't very deep thinkers.
3. Psychologically speaking, people who assume conspiracy whenever something like this happens are the most cynical people imaginable.
Originally posted by dontreally
Those were extremely tepid 'ad hominems', especially considering that they weren't specific, and logically speaking, they're entirely true.