Play the Gentleman
Jul 19th, 2008 by Randy Toman
I had just written an e-mail to a fellow political worker saying we have almost come to the point were issues and situation will not be the point of contention and that we will need to take on the individual as being the culprit and make the fight personal for he/she is to be faulted for their position.
He immediately wrote me back and said they will stick with the issues and will not make it personal. If that is not a quote the paraphrase is close to the thought and words used.
After thinking on what they had said I thought well maybe I should take that persons convictions and repent and not be a jerk as I usually can be.
But after thinking on it I would like to say, making it personal maybe questionable but I submit it maybe the only way the issue and/or today’s situation maybe resolved. And let me also say making it personal does not mean attacking the person’s family or anyone other then the person. Also with saying the person is to be faulted and the issue would not be were it is had it not been for the persons fault we have another aspect to the issue. And that is the person argumentation of his position. So we not only have the person’s fault in defending the issue, we have his faulty logic and reasoning that is infecting his surrounding colleagues and possibly extending well out past the political arena into the citizens proper. Political correctness and/or that illogical argumentation cannot and does not support the conclusion. It therefore voids the position the persons is holding and the illogical thinking that forced that position to be taken in the first place and they must be challenged on his position and his thinking which is being personal.
Harry Reed according to what I heard on the radio (7/17/08) said oil prices were not going up because of supply and demand but moving up because of oil speculators in the commodities markets. Now if demand was not there in a Global market would speculators readily create a market value needed in that high-risk market? Maybe so but they would not be able to sustain the price structure and continue to force prices up, as we have seen them go up in the last year. The price of oil is reacting to supply and demand and maybe other elements of the market place but not speculation as the driving force for higher prices. Somebody must increase the supply or we will continue to have higher and higher prices through speculation but not because of speculation but demand.
Now back to what to do. Should we continue to point out it is supply and demand and not the speculators or do we say; what is Harry Reed doing, he is not correct, why is he taking that position the fool and his position will be the ruin of the country.
I heard again on talk radio (7/17) that 90% of the Republicans are for drilling and 90% of the Democrats are against it. So here we go again, collectively to call them fools is OK but to single out Harry as a complete fool or worse a traitor is personal and attacking the jerk as an idiot with evil intention is to extreme and again off the issue and into personalities and personal faults. To say he is less then a Statesman and he does not deserve to be in charge of the out house is personally attacking his character or the character and intellect he doesn’t seen the have. But what can we say with regards to these 90% that are on the wrong side of the issue? Is it OK to call them fools collectively but not individually, are we not attacking the good name of the Democratic Party. No I say a bunch of fools makes each one just as much a fool as the bunch and should be told that. But let us be the gentleman and stick to the issue, forget about the corrupt/fool as an individual causing the stand still through motive or ignorance. To drill or not to drill is the issue but what fool cannot see that and that some fool is causing the situation.
Proverbs 1:5 King James Bible;
“ A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels.”
“Those who call for nonsense,” C. S. Lewis once wrote, “will find that it comes.”
“ The spokesman for Christianity has been fatally infected with irrationalism.”
Page 385 Dr. John Robbins “Without a Prayer Ayn Rand and the Close of Her System”. 1997
Is it any wonder we have a problem with the fools leading the parade of government. The Emperors have no cloth and no one is advising them of that fact. But let us not say anything to personal and continue to “Play the Gentleman”.