Originally Posted by
ragingpup
Sorry - are you implying that I am hiding my labour supporting political views? I have had many debates on here totally revealing my general political party views and in these debates I generally back up my arguments with reasoned evidence from various sources. People may disagree with these arguments and sources but at least I generally try and back them up. My left leaning is no secret on here and why should it be?
Your point seemed to be that I was not willing to budge on my arguments when given evidenced arguments that contradict my own views. I provided one example with tory mate that contradicted that and gives credit to Kerr for weighing in with evidenced arguments that might not entirely change my stance but definitely inform and sway them. I like having my views challenged and I lilke amending them.
the problem is that many views on here are horribly flawed, un-evidenced and just come down to personal opinion based on just the poster's own personal experience and world view. that of course is valid but when I disagree with such views my most common input to MM threads is to question the argument and ask for evidence to back it up. I am of course aware that in many cases, there is not a hope in hell that such evidence can be produced and that the poster doesn't have the ability to back up their arguments. I like to expose such views for what they are and leave the non replying posters looking empty and vacuous to all readers that can discern.
My biggest suggestion would be for such posters to just stop posting ill informed personal opinions on football messageboards if they get upset, or in your case, try and turn the attention away from the subject and my arguments (as you clearly can't answer the argument points I've made either) when they are challenged.
I personally don't start threads spouting my own political convictions. I would advise all not to. If you don't post bollo arguments then those that are able to won't take them apart and make you (generally, not you personally I should add) look stupid and uneducated. It's that simple...