Anderson Lee Aldridge: What we know about Colorado Springs LGBT nightclub shooter

[Into the Night]

Really? Do you think I do not understand your gun sickness? They define your simple little lives.

There is no such thing as 'gun sickness'. You don't get to blame millions of gun owners for the actions of ONE individual.

 

[Into the Night]

Nope. You received your one response from me for today. Someday you'll learn not to spam me.

See you tomorrow.

Proud of your bulverism, are you?

 

[Earl]

Proud of your bulverism, are you?

I found this to be interesting:

"Bulverism, coined by C.S. Lewis, is that ubiquitous logical fallacy that consists in the charge, “You’re only saying that because you’re a _____ (man/woman/Democrat/Republican/Christian/atheist/etc.).”

The worst forms of Bulverism are those that trade on constructed labels or identities like “Christian nationalism.”

They begin by observing some set of correlations (people who believe X are also more likely to believe Y), and then construct a label to describe that correlation.

Then, they turn around and propose that this label is the cause of the beliefs it describes, thus confusing correlation and causation and at the same time reasoning in a circle.

Since they’ve decided in advance that they don’t like some element of this belief matrix, this causal connection becomes the justification for dismissing the entire system.

Lewis explained his coining of the term in his 1941 essay, “Bulverism”:

You must show that a man is wrong before you start explaining*why*he is wrong."


I never heard that word at Vanderbilt...lol.

 

[Earl]

Great word, Bulverism.