Originally posted by Hoya Paranoia:
that's because you, sadly, are intellectually flaccid ... i, on the other hand, have no problem with fashioning a theoretical construct and then sticking by it blindly through all of its logical conclusions, no matter how unreasonable or unwarranted they may seem
it ain't easy to have your family disown you due to your fervent and unrelenting promotion of cultural and moral relativism, but i stand proud in not "cutting any slack"
I see years of therapy in your future....
No, I grew up in a fairly liberal household where the race was to see who could be the most liberal. I do admit, however, to cutting a little extra slack to The Greatest Generation for the effects of WWII. My grandfather despite many return trips to Europe refuses to set foot in Germany (or Austria) and refuses to buy a German or Japanese car.
Of course I know these things are ridiculous intellectually, but I could never pretend that as many books as I've read on the war, and documentaries seen, to understand what he went through those four years in France, Belgium and Germany and then on to the Pacific. And for that reason and countless nights talking to him about it and it's effects, I cut him some slack. If that makes me intellectually flaccid, so be it. I tend to think it makes me compassionate.
