nonethefewer | "Logical, Captain." (Reply)

Today's awesome quote:

This guy reminds me of a certain type I've run into, the sort who think that they are "independent thinkers" and "dispassionately logical", holding themselves up as paragons of logic and reason. What this really means is, if you actually CARE about something, they count that as a point against you, because you're being "emotional", and thus couldn't possibly be right about anything.

He's got all the signs, like the Latin motto for his LJ, his title of "The Honorable Hammer of Courteous Debate", and of course, his arguments based solely on "balance" and "emotional reporting". This type always, I've noticed, blames victims. Always. They seem to have an instinct for siding with the powerful whenever there's a conflict, and always justifying this by noting that the people in power don't get all emotional about things.

- flewellyn