BoyBrumby
Englishman
Right this is clearly a hard concept for you to grasp, so I'll go slowly. Craig said:I quite patently was not comparing SW\BLE to a mass-murderer. It's called exaggeration, use of similies, etc. You, however, wanted to think I was taking him too seriously so presumed I was talking literally.
From which one can infer that it is impossible not to respect someone if one doesn't know them.How can you not respect somebody as a person when you don't even know them?
I replied thusly:
Using a obvious example of someone that no-one has personal experince of on CW (I would hope...) & that no right-thinking person could possibly respect, thereby showing Craig's original argument is easy to disprove.I gonna go on record & say I don't respect this fella despite not knowing him. Sorry if that's controversial.
However....
In the BLE/SW thread you said (& here I quote):
"You're suggesting that every time he opens a new account we should give him a fresh chance? Would you advocate such a tactic for a murderer on a triple-life sentence who repeatedly escaped jail yet never looked like reoffending? I doubt it."
Which either means you are comparing the situations or your second sentence is a complete non-sequiter. Which is it? Unless it supports your argument it makes no sense. Moreover (& this is really more of a grammatical point) it isn't a simile; a simile would be something like "That would be like advocating such a tactic for a murderer on a triple-life sentence who repeatedly escaped jail yet never looked like reoffending?"
So are you talking literally or talking rot?