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On Tue, 2013-07-23 at 18:26 -0700, James Bottomley wrote:

> I think it's not in the original fallacies because they come from Greek
> rhetoric and the Greeks believed dialectic: the taking opposite
> positions and arguing them thoroughly.  It's only with the advent of
> Western European political systems that we're conditioned to seek
> compromise without rigorous examination.  This actually makes argument
> to moderation one of the most effective rhetorical tools in use today
> for discrediting an opponent's argument without actually addressing it.

What? Really? You mean the truth doesn't lie in the middle between
evolution and creationism?

-- Steve


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