LongInTheTooth comments on Logical Rudeness - Less Wrong

65 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 29 January 2010 06:48AM

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Comment author: LongInTheTooth 29 January 2010 02:31:32PM 0 points [-]

Watch this video of Richard Dawkins debating a creationist and take a drink every time she says "So what I would go back to..."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=US8f1w1cYvs

Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 29 January 2010 10:08:02PM *  10 points [-]

When Dawkins starts trying to psychoanalyze his opponent he really starts to look like the one being logically rude. At this point he has lost the high ground in the argument. He might be right about his diagnosis about her "emotional agenda", but since he asked where she studied science, shouldn't she be equally entitled to ask him where he studied clinical psychology?

This video is a good example of logical rudeness, but not only from one of the participants.

Comment author: Morendil 29 January 2010 03:31:41PM 8 points [-]

It seems to me that Dawkins is the first to shift the "argument", when he asks "Where did you study science"; and yet again when he brings up the "emotional agenda".

This isn't to defend the creationist's blabbering, just saying - sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

Comment author: AspiringRationalist 21 March 2012 03:41:47PM 0 points [-]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=US8f1w1cYvs A bit late to the game, but the link is broken.