The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #86672   Message #2508025
Posted By: VirginiaTam
04-Dec-08 - 05:10 PM
Thread Name: Obit: The sad passing of Common Sense
Subject: RE: Common Sense
Lizzie you just demonstrated what I cannot help but be wary of. The presentation is packed with emotion. And it is fine and good for you to feel so strongly. It is equally good for you to express as you wish.

It is just that devices like repetition and manipulated negations of facts in order to make a point and designed to elicit emotion is pathos style of argument. And as such, does not appeal to me as a method of getting to truth.

It may be purely reactionary on my part due to upbringing, etc. That is just my take.