Prayers For Boston Bombing Suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Pour In After Arrest (WTF?)

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1. I keep seeing this no true scotsman thing on this board. I don't know what it is, but the way it gets used, I assume it's what people trot out when all else fails. In the few years I've read this board, more like most of a decade, I've seen the word fallacy bandied about quite a bit and it always seems to be a means of stifling debate rather than actually a constructive answer.

2. When you put a few words in quotation marks and then add your own commentary, you are paraphrasing. Tough break, but that's life.

3. I never claimed to be a Christian, a Buddhist, or worshiper of Apollo. I see no value in trotting out my religious beliefs, or possible lack thereof, in order to point out that you did a shoddy job of proving your point. What I believe is immaterial when I disagree with you based on poor paraphrasing and an unwillingness to read things in context as opposed to jumping to the most extreme conclusion. I realize that this is not a common stance these days, but I do things my own way.

4. The ad hominem bit is funny. I said you either had poor reading comprehension skills, which is not an attack on your character, or you were deliberately playing the fool in order to put across your point, which is a comment on behavior not character. An ad hominem attack would be an irrelevant attack on your character, not on your readily observed actions. When I suggested you buy a hat with bells, that was a humorous play on my comment that you are steadfastly committed to playing the fool on this issue. I don't really see that as an attack on your character, but I could be wrong. Nevertheless, even if the hat thing could be construed as an attack on your character, it was still a relevant comment based upon your own posts.

Anyway, thanks for the laughs. It's been a hoot.