Oh. Ignore the last two sentences half of it got cut. The appropriate way to respond to someone in a discussion if you believe they are wrong is to demonstrate why they are wrong in a logical manner. I did not invite you to predict what I will or will not believe in the future. I did not invite you to psychoanalyse why I hold the opinions I have. You know nothing about me and you have no right to make such assertions.
So you thought that you could wade in here, make insulting assumptions about huge numbers of people about whom YOU 'know nothing' and who cannot respond, and then throw a hissy fit when you are questioned?
Well, I seriously hope that you DO mature, and quickly, because with an attitude like that in real life you might very soon be finding yourself in terrible trouble.
Well, Ian, it takes an awful lot to get my goat but bigots do it every time.
I am not brave enough I suppose to use such strong language but really......
I am hopping mad to think that ANYONE of us could be so narrow-minded and be self-righteous about it!
GRRRRRRRRRRR...................
(Insert scowling face with big angry fist waving)
Oooops - Louise is the bigot
NOT YOU IAN!!! I admire you enormously!
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Sorry Ian, I was trying to find out how to change my avatar and didn't realise you were waiting for me!
I admire you for being a young man who knows what you want to do with your life and are MAKING it happen, not sitting back and whining that everyone else 'owes' you.
Just who is venting here, exactly?
You reserve the right to categorise people as inferior without redress according to your own assessment despite knowing absolutely NOTHING about them, but object to us turning the tables based on your own spewings. Hypocrite.
Ian, you are just too quick for me!
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My 'system' for assessing people is non-existent. I do not have a 'system'. I would not have a 'system' because that is prejudice. I allow everyone to assess themselves and I like everyone until they hurt someone. Louise, you have hurt a lot of people with your prejudice and I can not approve of such behaviour. I have not made any personal remarks as to your worthiness, just your appalling behaviour.
But if I met you I'd probably still give you a hug!
I'm not saying that people aren't different, just that to value them as 'better' or 'worse' based on arbitrary intellectual criteria leads to human rights abuses and isn't even logical.
To let people be judged by how they treat others, now that may have some logic.
Besides, I said I like everyone until they hurt someone. That means I then stop liking them. It doesn't mean that I think that they suddenly become inferior.
Yes, I know that there is no real equality of opportunity on this planet, but there can be equality of worth.
I'm not a superior being just because I was lucky enough to be born who I am and not a starving farmer's in a drought in another country.
Oooops 'starving farmer's daughter in a drought'
Then what do you think of the situation where two people have the same opportunity and one makes more of it than the other?
Choice. Free will. Besides, no-one has exactly the same opportunity as another because there are always other factors coming in to play such as personality, health, financial considerations, family commitments - I could make a very long list here but you are clever enough to get the gist.
But just suppose (as happens) many people with as-near-as-dammit identical attributes apply for a position where any could have made a stunning contribution to society - but they are only hiring one. Are the others now worth less than the successful candidate? Even if the winner was chosen by lottery?
Of course not!
WfM you have the advantage over me - I'm twelve thousand miles away!
Why shouldn't they be judged if they fail to?
Louise, we have told you why. Over and over, ad nauseam.
Not one of us is perfect enough to stand in judgement over our peers.
You are probably at a stage in your life where that doesn't make sense but I hope that it will one day.
WfM I am proud to be posting in the same thread as you.
You say we have every right to judge our peers and then object to being judged
in the same post.
If that isn't hypocrisy, what is?
Do you actually mean to reserve entirely to yourself the right to judge others?
Oh, I'm terribly sorry, I didn't realise that we are in the presence of a deity.