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You seem to be asserting that all that is needed to determine who is right or wrong in any particular situation is to assign some sort of "power" metric to both
by gwright 6y ago
You seem to be asserting that all that is needed to determine who is right or wrong in any particular situation is to assign some sort of "power" metric to both sides and then conclude that the powerful entity must be wrong and the weaker entity must be right without actually considering the particular issue at hand.
This seems like pretty lazy thinking to me.
- throwanem 6y agoWhat it seems like to you is your business. But, to extend a metaphor from my prior comment, you're going to need to go a lot further than you have to convince anyone that the guy with the shotgun needs to be worrying about the guy he's pointing the shotgun at, and who is also obviously unarmed. It's not impossible to convince people of that, but you're going to need to work at it, because you're asking them to believe something that's the direct opposite of the situation they're actually seeing with their own two eyes. If you want to call something lazy, why not start with the kind of thinking that takes such a mealy-mouthed, "we can't know for sure until all the facts are in" approach to that?
- gwright 6y agoAll I said was that the particular facts of a situation are relevant. Hard to believe that is a controversial point.