Father Of 9 Year Old Murder Victim In Tucson Does Not Want Restrictions Of Freedoms!

[avrpatsfan]

I just find it very sad and terrible that politicians are trying to politicize a horrible event. It's just immoral and wrong to do that. Democrats, if you want to get republicans off the radio and get rid of the 1st amendment then do it without using a tragedy. It's just pathetic.

[D Roses Bulls]

I just find it very sad and terrible that politicians are trying to politicize a horrible event. It's just immoral and wrong to do that. Democrats, if you want to get republicans off the radio and get rid of the 1st amendment then do it without using a tragedy. It's just pathetic.

yeah I don't like how they are using this event to push a political agenda and im not republican or democrat.

[D Roses Bulls]

Right. And that's contrary to reason. And actively clouding reason is a mistake.



Tilting at windmills ...



The man's opinion might very well be rational. Referring to his relationship to this tragedy, however, is funneling in passions and thus not rational. In other words, I'm talking about YOU, not him.

Regarding him, what you don't seem to understand is that I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt. Given his proximity to the situation and the likelihood that passions would cloud his reason, I ordinarily would discredit his opinion altogether. Here, however, I'm willing to assume that he's being rational. Problem is, he's still just a random rational guy in Tucson. I've been alerted to no special expertise or knowledge that he has regarding restrictions on freedom. As such, I've been alerted to no reason why his opinion matters more than that of anyone else.



And thus you were an accomplice to the attempt to cloud reason.

cloud reason? by using a title? I just dont want to give anyone an excuse to give me an infraction. thats all. I think what he said and what I believe are reasonable. again though he isn't some guy just coming off the streets and giving his view. he is a victim in all of this and so like it or not, his opinion does matter.

[philab]

cloud reason? by using a title? I just dont want to give anyone an excuse to give me an infraction. thats all. I think what he said and what I believe are reasonable. again though he isn't some guy just coming off the streets and giving his view. he is a victim in all of this and so like it or not, his opinion does matter.

You really don't see the hypocrisy in all this, do you?

Ordinarily in the wake of a tragedy like this, liberties are at risk because passions overtake reason. Victims of the tragedy are trotted out to testify about the horror, and we're all exasperated. In the midst of that exasperation, we do stupid things like restrict freedoms.

Now you're trying to trot out a victim of the tragedy who just so happens to DECRY further restrictions on freedom. And okay. What you seem to be missing, however, is that this is the exact same modus operandi. It's using passions to justify something. That that something might be a greater good, whether subjectively or even objectively, is IRRELEVANT.



We need to employ reason in making decisions. Passion, by definition, counteracts reason. Trotting out this victim serves only to elicit passions, to counteract reason. If he were otherwise qualified as an expert or someone with specialized knowledge on restrictions of freedom, his opinion might be worth hearing. Absent such a showing, this guy's opinion serves as nothing but an unjustifiable danger to the rational thought process.