{"id":3373,"date":"2009-12-07T21:30:22","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T02:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=3373"},"modified":"2009-12-07T21:30:22","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T02:30:22","slug":"forensics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=3373","title":{"rendered":"Forensics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fodder<\/a> has a post about Forensics in his vette, and I fully comprehend. The daughter- once she found out the school she wants has a Forensics program, was excited as hell. Then she stepped into the Forensics hall, and her face dropped. “I thought there would be dissection tables! Microscopes! Cadavers!”<\/p>\n

Forensics, I explained to her, is the science of arguing. It’s the way people who are educated have a discussion. It’s the way you learn things that you didn’t know- for instance, I learned about the Civil War in my senior year in high school. I took the position that the Civil War was fought because of slavery, and I had my ass handed to me; the civil war, as we all know now, was about States Rights. I came away from that debate humbled, and smarter. And I have come away from many debates in my life humbled and smarter. Everyone enters a debate or a discussion with the intention of proving their point, and if they are capable of being honest with themself, they can learn from their opponent even if they are correct. <\/p>\n

THis is how I know Islam is evil, and I can handily prove it. Nobody can come to that debate with me, bringing intellectual honesty, and defeat me; nobody. It has nothing to do with my feelings, those have no place in forensics. Forensics deals with facts, where debate is concerned. Forensics where other things are concerned also deals with facts; the fact that there’s a .357 caliber bullet in a corpse is only<\/em> a fact, a datum. It is not possible to jump to the conclusion that the cause of death was the bullet wound, unless it can be proved that there was no other cause of death, for instance. Just as the forensic evidence that ‘I know nice muslims” cannot provide evidence that Islam is not evil, because Muslims are not Islam. <\/p>\n

A lot of people(cough: Democrats) make the mistake of basing their worldview on their feelings. Nothing could be stupider, or more dangerous. What you want the world to be is not what the world is, period. What you think is wrong with the world, is probably not what is actually wrong with the world, especially if you think what is wrong with the world is based on what you feel about it. <\/p>\n

It drives me batshit crazy to see people doing this sort of thing<\/a> Frankly, this is the sort of bullshit that is beyond reason, these people are incapable of reason, and therefore, cannot participate in a proper forensic discussion because all they have is their feelings, they lack facts of any kind. <\/p>\n

A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, on running into people like this, I would adjust their attitude. I learned attitude adjustment from Dad, who was the Zen Master of Attitude Adjustment. Once I had adjusted someones’ attitude, it remained adjusted. These days I try to debate people, and I’ve found that there are two types: Those who will learn, and those who will not. Of the type who will learn, some have become regular readers here. I respect them and like them a great deal. Of the type that will not, some storm off in disgust, and some get abused until they run away. But all I got is forensics; I will have a joust of reason with anyone, but I will no longer personally tune people up for being assholes or idiots. Those days are behind me, and what energy I have left for that activity will be reserved for my daughter’s suitors when that time arrives. I will not hesitate to tune up a teenaged boy if he lips off at me or mistreats the daughter, and I know the tricks. I may be a lazy, fat old man, but don’t fuck with me, I have no patience left. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fodder has a post about Forensics in his vette, and I fully comprehend. The daughter- once she found out the school she wants has a Forensics program, was excited as hell. Then she stepped into the Forensics hall, and her face dropped. “I thought there would be dissection tables! Microscopes! Cadavers!” Forensics, I explained to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3373"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}