I agree – it is frustrating to attempt to have a sane conversation with those who patently are not sane. Or who are just plain evil. As witness my attempts to get trolls like Dwight to answer the most basic of first-principles questions: “To whom does your life belong?” He pretends that he never heard it.
Or when he is caught in a blatant misreprsentation, such as conflating murder with self defense by invoking the 6th Commandment as “Thou shalt not kill.” This of course depends upon a translational error, as the original text explicitly enjoins againt murder and makes no provision against self-defense. Furthermore, American jurisprudence makes that distinction as well. There’s also a nasty logical trap waiting for those who choose to stand by the mistranslation, and that is with respect to abortion. At that point, the intellectually dishonest choose the death penalty as a matter of hypocrisy, once again dishonestly conflating the lives of innocents with those of mass murderers.
To persist in such a misrepresentation out ignorance is, well, ignorance, or as the late, great historian Barbara Tuchman so aptly put it – woodenheadedness. To persist in full knowledge of the deception is flat out evil.
But the answer to the first question – to whom does your life belong? – is the most important of all, for all else follows from that answer. This is kryptonite to statist Ubermensch wanna-bes, as they have no valid and no moral argument.
