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The Iranian people know exactly what rights are, and how they don't currently have them. Soon...it's hard to keep educated people down the way the regime there has done.
You've touched on something there with the "educated people" thought.
Given certain circumstances in some countries (we can use Iran if you like) it's amazing that they send so many of their youth to Western countries to be educated.
It appears to me that Western-educated youth will take Western ideas back to the homeland and comparing those ideas against the homeland just has have the homeland coming up short, wouldn't you think?
It breeds trouble back home.
One way we can help move the progression along? Help instill Western values in the foreign students?
I think we're all Bozos on this bus.
Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239
muff528 3
QuoteQuoteI did not call the cops! I was trying to order a pizza and the distraction must have caused me to mis-dial. (No! ...it was not a pocket-dial, either! )
Were you ordering a large sausage pizza?
No ...I skipped the pizza and got tacos instead.
jakee 1,279
QuoteQuoteReading comprehension is not your strong point is it?
Can't even remember what you wrote, "'Culture' is not a valid reason...."?QuoteI'll repeat it again, really slowly,....
If. No. Reasons. Are. Valid. Then. All. Reasons. Are. Invalid.
Repeat it all you want. You'll eventually convince yourself that you actually said that initially.
You misquoted yourself. You didn't mention "No reasons" until post 59....and that was out of the blue.
I have not misquoted myself one jot, nor have I forgotten what I initially said.
The problem here is entirely yours, stemming from your inability to recognise that 'not a valid reason' does not require the existence of 'a valid reason'. The only reason I brought up 'no reason' was because of your utter failure to realise that fact.
By all means, please keep digging, but don't expect to convince anyone else that if nothing is valid, then nothing is invalid. 'Cos you're being really, really stupid.
QuoteQuoteIn the first two occasions you say I'm wrong without giving any reason at all,
Again, reading comprehension. Reading comprehension.
You do get that you're proving my point, right? Has that seeped through your thick skull into your not so sizeable brain?
Monotonously repeating 'reading comprehension' without being able to point to any specific occasion where I've read something wrong is nothing more than an admittance that you're talking out of your arse.
QuoteContent (and intent) changes radically with time.
In what way do you think the content of my stated opinion has changed during the course of this thread.
First I said that culture was not a valid reason for crushing free speech, then I further stated that I could not think of any valid reasons for crushing free speech. Where on earth do you see the contradiction? Are you actually reading this in English, or is there some other language that uses those same words to mean something else completely?
QuoteGive it up Jakee....you said culture is not a valid reason and I simply asked if you had any reasons that might be valid.
To which I simply replied no.
And that is what you had a problem with. Why?
QuoteTaken at face value, I might agree with the "no valid reason" statement.
Then why aren't you taking it at face value? What is your problem with it?
Oh wait, I know this one already, it's because you let your anger and animosity overrule your logic.
billvon 2,471
Awww, Bill. We were just having fun playing down in the gutter.
Actress? What actress?
I think we're all Bozos on this bus.
Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239
QuoteQuoteQuoteI did not call the cops! I was trying to order a pizza and the distraction must have caused me to mis-dial. (No! ...it was not a pocket-dial, either! )
Were you ordering a large sausage pizza?
No ...I skipped the pizza and got tacos instead.
Oh hell....I just realized my faux pas.
Sorry, man.
I think we're all Bozos on this bus.
Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239
Repeat it all you want. You'll eventually convince yourself that you actually said that initially.
You misquoted yourself. You didn't mention "No reasons" until post 59....and that was out of the blue.
Again, reading comprehension. Reading comprehension.
Again, reading comprehension. Reading comprehension.
Oh, but I DO! Well, actually not a lot though. Best comedic stupidity on the 'net, IMO!
Content (and intent) changes radically with time. It's like running a maze...you never know what's around the next corner.
Give it up Jakee....you said culture is not a valid reason and I simply asked if you had any reasons that might be valid.
Taken at face value, I might agree with the "no valid reason" statement.
I think we're all Bozos on this bus.
Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239
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