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Originally posted by step314
The reason I gave for why sodomizers are rationally stupid is that addictions affect the emotions, so people unusually susceptible to addiction are likely to be more emotional types than rational types.
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Mystech says: Again you are dong nothing but assigning arbitrary stereotypes. Tell me, what information do you have to back any of this up?
It is self-evident that addictions affect emotions. What are you suggesting addictions affect? No statement outside math is completely certain, so let me tell you, if to be a self-respecting author one has to be so skeptical as to find it necessary to give evidence for an assertion that obvious or self-evident, no one would be able to produce an essay of any interest about human nature without running to 10,000 pages. Don't use pedantry to excuse your inability to produce meaningful thought.
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Originally posted by step314
And sodomizers are likely to have sodomizing male ancestors whence their sodomizing traits came. And if you've got sodomizing male ancestors, you've likely got a lot of sodomized dissipated bitches as female ancestors, unusually susceptible to sodomy, and thus unusually likely to be non-rational types.
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mystech says: Read this closer. Regardless of the fact that your premises are false, the information just doesn't add up at all! The argument you have made does not explain why sodomizers would be emotional or illogical. Even if the points you made were true, it doesn't lead to the conclusion that you've drawn. My suggestion to you would be to pick up a book on the topic of syllogistic logic.
First of all, syllogistic logic is out of date. Ever since Boolean logic, it's been obsolete. Statistics also is something one should understand if one wants to make elegant arguments. Aristotle is underrated, and was very important in his day, but there have been advances in logic in the past 2400 years.
Since you don't indicate where you fail to understand, I'll explain once again how things follow. Don't expect more for I get bored real quick at humoring people pretending to be pedants--maybe if you're real clear about where the non-sequitors are (I shall number things), I might think of responding. (1) My main premise (still obvious) is that addictions affect the emotions (as opposed to the rational part of a person); for example, you can't delude someone into thinking that 1 + 1 = 3 by giving her a drug, but you can delude her into having sexual emotions for you by giving the right drug; these emotions might cause errors in thought, but such errors are secondary to the errant emotions. Granted, you can confuse a person intellectually by drugs (e.g., by poisoning the brain slightly), but such confusion will be random and irrelevant inasmuch as there is no reason to believe it will cause attraction more than repulsion (2) It is reasonable to suppose that the extent to which an addiction can affect someone is going to be more or less proportional to the amount the person allows herself to be controlled or influenced by the part of herself that is affected by the addiction. (3) From (1) and (2) it follows that it is reasonable to suppose that there is a significant positive correlation between someone being susceptible to addiction and being emotional as opposed to rational, especially in any given population. (4) Sodomizers (given my theory about sodomy being addictive) have evolved to sodomize because sodomy addicts people into doing what they want, that being by far the most plausible advantage of the behavior. (5) From an evolutionary standpoint, men can gain enormously by addicting females into sex, sex offering reproduction. (6) From (4) and (5) it is reasonable to suppose therefore that sodomizers tend to sodomize females to addict them into having sex. (7) Sodomizers presumably inherit much of their tendency to sodomize from ancestors, just as people inherit other traits. (8) From (7) it follows that sodomizers are likely to have male ancestors who are sodomizers. (9) From (8) and (6) and the self-evident assertion that every female ancestor had sex with a male ancestor (unless you are Christ) it follows that sodomizers are likely to have had more female ancestors who were sodomized than typical. (10) It being harmful being sodomized, it follows from (9) that sodomizers are likely to have had more female ancestors who were susceptible to being sodomized than typical. (11) From (10) and (3) and there being no apparent reason to think there are other forces causing females with sodomizing descendants to be rational, it is reasonable to suppose that sodomizers are likely to have had more female ancestors who were emotional as opposed to rational. (12) Sodomizers presumably inherit much of their tendency to be emotional as opposed to rational from ancestors just as people inherit other traits. (13) From (11) and (12) it follows that sodomizers are more likely to be emotional and illogical than typical people. QED
Notice that I have left out what may be even a stronger argument, namely that sodomizing types typicaly having had more female ancestors who made their mate choices from sodomy addiction as opposed to real love, male ancestors of sodomizers were likely less loveable and thus more unfit generally, from which it follows that sodomizers are quite generally likely to have inherited a tendecy to be more unfit (unless you consider sodomizing abilities a fitness) and not beautiful.
Gee maybe they do?! Is that the best evidence you have to support this aspect of your theory? This is all that you can use to patch up a hole in your argument? Why not try to make observations, take serveys, find other people's research and verify it, anything that could possably resemble acctual research, for gods sake. "Maybe they do" is not a premise that you can build an argument off of. I'll tell you why spymoose doesn't think so, it's because there is no evidence to support it!
You just don't get it do you. It wasn't an aspect of my theory. I had no evidence for whether there is a burnout effect to sodomy addiction, so I never mentioned the phenomenon one way or the other. And no, I can't afford to do a survey. You want to offer funding? So what sort of nonsense do you believe, anyway? That no one is allowed to express an opinion unless he can do research about every solitary aspect of his theory? How bizarre. I don't build any premise on "maybe they do", I don't even mention the phenomenon one way or the other. Actually, the drug I mentioned as mostly likely causing an effect similar to prostaglandin is alcohol. I'm no expert, but I don't think alcohol burnout is very significant anyway, so even if I could investigate the matter somehow (but I can't), I doubt if it would be very interesting or definitive (but why bother being concerned one way or the other since there is nothing I can do about it). Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. You are an arrant hypocrite, since again, you give no evidence for burnout not existing. Why should my detractors set higher rules for me than for themselves? Probably it's because you doh't believe the nonsense you spout about how people should argue anyway, it's just something you invent off the cuff to try to make yourself look better. You tell me to find other people's research, but you yourself are too indifferent to the research that exists to even realize that there is no research on whether sodomy is chemically addictive in my sense (except that done by me), much less research on the particular arcane subtopic you suggest I try to find--unlike you you presumptuous twit, I have looked for research on (chemical) sodomy addiction with some care (of course, there could be some somewhere, it's impossible to rule that out without examining everything ever written). You make out like you understand Aristotleian logic, but I won't give you even that much, you insult him and medieval logicians by using the word "syllogism". You're just a stupid opportunitist out to give your disgusting behavior an air of respectability by pretending that you actually have opinions based on enligthened moral sentiment.