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| | # insisting that someone needs to experience something (e.g., drugs, pornography, gambling, etc.) before being able to criticize it | | # insisting that someone needs to experience something (e.g., drugs, pornography, gambling, etc.) before being able to criticize it |
| | + | # personal experience dictates personal views, rather than rising above bad and/or unusual experiences and basing one's views on [[logic]] |
| | # frequent reliance on [[circular reasoning]], as in demanding censorship of [[intelligent design]] while simultaneously citing the resulting silence as proof against it<ref>See, e.g., [[Richard Sternberg]].</ref> | | # frequent reliance on [[circular reasoning]], as in demanding censorship of [[intelligent design]] while simultaneously citing the resulting silence as proof against it<ref>See, e.g., [[Richard Sternberg]].</ref> |
| | # claim that switching from heterosexual to [[homosexual]] is customary, but switching back is somehow impossible | | # claim that switching from heterosexual to [[homosexual]] is customary, but switching back is somehow impossible |
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| | # if [highly implausible assumption like "[[embryonic stem cell]] research will find the cure for paralysis"], then would you support it (without any consideration of alternatives)? | | # if [highly implausible assumption like "[[embryonic stem cell]] research will find the cure for paralysis"], then would you support it (without any consideration of alternatives)? |
| | # [[Barack Obama]] on [[Afghanistan]]: with fewer soldiers, we didn't have enough ammo and humvees!<ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/21/us/politics/21text-demdebate.html?sq=transcript&st=nyt&scp=2&pagewanted=print]</ref> | | # [[Barack Obama]] on [[Afghanistan]]: with fewer soldiers, we didn't have enough ammo and humvees!<ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/21/us/politics/21text-demdebate.html?sq=transcript&st=nyt&scp=2&pagewanted=print]</ref> |
| − | # personal experience dictates personal views, rather than rising above bad and/or unusual experiences and basing one's views on [[logic]]
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| | # never admit shame for [[liberal]] behavior, but often tell others they should be ashamed of themselves | | # never admit shame for [[liberal]] behavior, but often tell others they should be ashamed of themselves |
| | # [[free speech]] for anything and everything ... except the [[conservative]] truth, and religion. | | # [[free speech]] for anything and everything ... except the [[conservative]] truth, and religion. |