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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAny belief system that takes criticism of it as evidence of it's validity
can be thrown away.
'Nuff said.
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Any belief system that takes criticism of it as evidence of it's validity (Original Post)
sibelian
Sep 2013
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kcr
(15,317 posts)1. Oh, really?
Only people who believe their belief systems can't be criticized should be taken seriously?
Belief systems that need ways of deflecting the impact of criticism by framing the ACT of criticism as a validation of the belief system itself.... are flawed.
Should I edit my OP?
kcr
(15,317 posts)3. It might help if you actually gave an example of what you're talking about.
How, exactly, are they deflecting the impact of the criticism.
There was a rather long thread on this site not so long ago with a list of complaints against a subset of the membership. The last point on the list was that the badness that the aforemention subset was responsible for would be a confirmed hypothesis if the subset themselves were irritated by the list.
kcr
(15,317 posts)5. Yeah, okay. That didn't help.
And, it sounds like this is about DU drama so I'll bow out. I don't want to be on the wrong side.
Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)6. Oh, yeah. That thing. That's like saying --
"If you're offended by being called and obnoxious jackass then that just proves you're an obnoxious jackass." or "Only wife-beaters deny being wife-beaters."