CarolC, we've been over this before.

The flaw in your logic, as I pointed out above, is that I had already said I supported human rights by the time you said "I don't know if you support human rights." My statement, "I trust you and I both support human rights," has as a necessary premise "I support human rights." If I did not support them, I could not believe that you and I both supported them. Therefore my support for human rights was obvious to anyone who had read my statement and applied to it the most rudimentary logical interpretation.

You're too smart to have missed this. Thus, if you had really been inclined to accept my statement that I supported human rights, you would have done so. Instead you rejected it. Your subsequent desperate (and pretty much unnecessary) attempts to reframe your statement so that you can pretend to be above reproach have not, I think, fooled anybody (except perhaps the loyal JTS).

I still have no real opinion of you, by the way, because a forum like mudcat can only give a distorted impression, especially in political threads. (Well, that's not strictly true; I have some opinions. I think you can be as stubborn as all get-out, for example, but obviously I can too or we would not still be arguing this.) Mostly, I only have opinions of your opinions, not of your character, if you see what I mean.

I also think your husband flipped out there for a moment, but even that isn't a lasting opinion. I'm sure he's a fine fellow in real life!