"Beware of belligerent certainty."

Keith posts a hypothesis that Pakistanis, as a result of the pressures of their culture, are slightly more predisposed to sexually abusing underage girls than other demographics.

He insists, beyond all doubt that his hypothesis is reasonable ... ie it is a legitimate and supportable point of view.

He argues to support his hypothesis for A WEEK.

He provides no evidence, and his arguments all depend on a deliberate tunnel vision to function, if not outright lies.

And he warns about belligerent certainty.

Are you having a laugh?


Keith,

My position is that neither you nor I nor anyone else is qualified to assert the causes of these crimes.

My position is that to understand the causes, a proper study would have to be done as there are many variables that COULD have contributed.

My position is that your hypothesis is uncertain, unreliable and tenuous.

My position is that your hypothesis lacks evidence and even a meaningful argument to support it.

My position is that we cannot be certain about why these crimes are happening.

Let me say that again ... "we cannot be certain" ... and in the case of your hypothesis, there is no evidence at all to give it even the vaguest legitimacy.

We cannot be certain but ... no ... no buts ... we have no evidence at all.

But your certainty that it is reasonable, despite being unable to support it, means that you have defended it through thick and thin FOR A WEEK.

Your determination to prove a racist hypothesis, i.e. a hypothesis that has as its foundation assumptions that discriminate on grounds of race and its culture to the exclusion of all other variables, and in fact which rejects other variables out of hand before even considering what they might be, is very worrying.

Why would you spend so much of your life trying to sell a racist idea?

Your posts get more farcical by the hour.