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I've worked in the defense industry. You suspect this and you suggest that and assert "we need to make sure we're not being manipulated". Let me tell you somet

• mwfunk 13y ago
  Let me tell you something: I used to work in the defense industry as well (in "the U.S. drone program", no less!), and I disagree. So...yeah. Changed your mind yet? No? It's the truth. That must not be a very effective form of persuasion then. I'm not sure why anyone, like anyone at all, is getting worked up over what jusben1369 wrote, which wasn't even expressing an opinion on the matter so much as just advocating critical thinking. It's just as important to apply critical thinking to sources of information that provide conclusions that you agree with as it is to those you disagree with. The more significant and emotionally charged a topic is, the more important it becomes to not slip up and abandon basic reasoning.
  • Iftheshoefits 13y ago
    Basic reasoning would allow one to conclude I wasn't attempting to persuade anybody. The person I replied to didn't provide anything other than his own emotional screed in which he accused the article's author, and people who support the author's points, of being emotional, pretty much without basis. Like you have done to me, for example. I don't see anybody "getting worked up" over anything. I see accusations of such from people, such as yourself, attempting to cast disagreement with his comment as coming from a basis of emotion rather than reason in an attempt to poison the well. Don't admonish people to not abandon basic reasoning when you yourself have done so. It's petty.