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"Left wing kookiness" (was: Self-Sufficiency Acreage...?)
"Robert Sturgeon" wrote in message
... On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 20:28:03 GMT, "Jeff McCann" wrote: "Strider" wrote in message .. . On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 08:19:51 -0800, "Rico X. Partay" wrote: "Bob Peterson" wrote in message ... Diet for a Small Planet is hardly evidence of anything other than left wing kookiness. If you want to trust your life to something that nutty then do so, otherwise have some animal products in your diet. When you use adjectives like "left wing" in a technical discussion about nutrition you tend to show you have an adgenda that has nothing to do with the merits of the argument, and you thereby lower the credibility of anything useful you may have to say. To paraphrase Al Franken, arguing about whether a diet is "left wing" or "right wing" is like arguing whether al-Qaeda uses too much vinegar in its salad dressing. It may be true, but it's completely beside the point. Hope this helps. The source of any information is relevant to the value of that information. Any info from leftwing, tofu sucking, liberals is rife with their philosophy, is based on fantasy, and is suspect from the outset. But even a stopped clock is correct twice every day. Also "[a]ny info from leftwing, tofu sucking, liberals is rife with their philosophy, is based on fantasy, and is suspect from the outset" reads awfully close to "I am uncomfortable with anything that challenges my present preconceptions and beliefs, so I prefer to argue more about the source than the content." I occasionally come into contact with the couple of outright lunatics we have in our town. Knowing their mental condition, I don't believe anything they say. For similar reasons, I don't believe anything a "leftwing, tofu sucking, liberal" says either without indepently checking it out using reliable sources. "Leftwing, tofu sucking, liberals" simply aren't reliable sources of information, IMHO. And when it comes to deciding what are reliable sources, MHO is the only thing that counts - for me. Fair enough. But in most cases, I'm sure that cognitive dissonance has more to do with it than any well-reasoned and objective concern over the reliability of the source. Jeff |
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