joether
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ORIGINAL: bounty44 I totally agree that people need to be careful to not take things out of context. so wanting to be "fair", I set out to go through your list of responses to the quotes aylee posted. "Its a cut/paste job from some anti-climate change site.." what? did you expect them to be on al gore's fan page?? anyway... I got to the first one, read the fireman's blog, and absolutely could not make out how what aylee quoted is "out of context." I got to the second one, the journalist, and absolutely could not make out how his quote was taken "out of context" either. I got to the third one, and said, okay, it doesn't matter in this instance who the quote was attributed to, it doesn't change its essence. I got to the fourth one, the one you implied was missing information. the only missing information is a spokesperson saying "oh he didn't literally mean put them in jail, he's just kinda frustrated by them you know" despite the fact that the guy calls "ignoring climate science" an intergenerational crime and has stated "throw the politicians" in jail on more than one occasion. maybe you can please explain exactly how each of these things are "out of context" instead of just saying they are and having the reader take your word for it. or why we shouldn't take people at their word when they have repeatedly said something and have put their words into the context of a crime being committed. Ok, seems we need to give you a lesson in 'what it means to take something out of context'.... When something is taken in context, that means the whole of the document to which the line(s) is taken from gives it a fairly obvious meaning. If the whole of the document was to actually kill people and burn down their homes; then some of those lines Aylee posts, would be....IN CONTEXT. Yet, when reading those sources, when the lines do come up, its after paragraphs of sane text, followed after the quote, by more paragraphs of sane text. To which it could be pointed that the quote itself, could be an act of mental frustration or sarcasm. The first example, is pretty obvious. The writer is stating those that deny the evidence because their fantasy states to do so, should be charged more for damages than others. Its like those mothers that didn't vaccinate their kids from measles. Should we force the insurance company to pay the bill for the kid's hospital stay if he/she actually got measles? Forcing the parents to 'pay for their stupidity'? Could you imagine a medical doctor stating this in a journal on the subject matter? I could. Does that mean the medical doctor has destroyed his oath on becoming a doctor? No of course not! He treated the patient, bill the insurance company and move on. But for conservatives, they would look at that as proof-positive, that not just this medical doctor....BUT ALL MEDICAL DOCTORS.....behave like this. Or think like this. Medical doctors, unlike the average conservative in this nation, tend to write....LONG...documents on subject matters in their field of study. In the second link, the writer is stating his very first impression.....OF SOMEONE ELSE'S VIEWPOINT! But after thinking on it, decided that was not the correct thought process. That's found in the second paragraph. If you had read that whole article, you would have read the second paragraph. Comes after the first and before the third. Here is the very next line, from the one Aylee's source was quoting: "Reading on, I realised that this is not exactly what he had in mind." That clues most people in that the previous quote is not the true thoughts of the author on the subject matter. That you missed this is stunning. The only way you could NOT see how this was taken out of context, is if you didnt bother to...READ...the whole document. The third and fourth links, I can understand both sides of the arguments. One side stating the individual is violent and possibly extreme, and the other stating they are peaceful, but, very frustrated at the legal/political process to understanding the material known to mankind. Which side is the true side, depends upon your view of the individual. How well do you know this individual? Their history, other works, and publications about them from journalists (not to be confused with FOX 'news' journalist 'standards'). quote:
ORIGINAL: bounty44 so given your 0 for 4 run, im not sure why I should continue. I only expect more of the same. In order to continue a journey, one has to first start. Sounds like a Chinese fortune cookie, doesn't it? You didn't start anything yet. You 'read' the links and still didn't understand the concept of context. You showed me four examples of you not understanding how something is taken out of context. Before you even started, you assumed a huge amount of bullshit and then searched to find something that supports it. I on the other hand, have known Aylee to have a bad habit of posting bad material and bad evidence. And I pointed it out ot her to be fair. That in one or two instances, it did take me some time to find the original sources the quotes are taken from (to read them in context). In the others, took me all of 30 seconds to find the original document. The second point I made to Aylee is the whole thing looked 'cut/paste' from some anti-climate change website. That whomever created that webpage never bothered to check the information against the original document to which it came from. But rather used the quote, because it has shock value by itself. Either that author of the page didnt know to look it up (which is stupid) or knew of the proper context and left it all out for a political purpose (in which they are intellectually dishonest). So Aylee is taking material from a page authored by someone that is either stupid or intellectually dishonest with their webpage. Does that sound like a good way to start making an argument towards dcnovice's original question?
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