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Originally posted by Grojlach:
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Originally posted by MagiK:
Alexander two things...one ....watch the personal attacks, its not tolerated well on this board, this is a discussion forum and I have the right to my opinion just as Rikard has to his, we are attacking ideas and policy not each other.
Second, obviously you are just chipping in here without having any background on me...at least Rikard has some Idea where Im coming from, I am obviously not basing my whole ideology on one or two conversations, I've lived and learned, I have traveled and experienced to act like I've been living in some back water rural town is falacy. I have been over seas, I have been in combat, I have been on humanitarian missions and I have watched and learned, I read, I educate myself and Ilearn....we use examples because we can't put our whole life time of experience down into one post. So skip the superior BS Ive got more international experience than MOST people. This board only has a handfull of people who have been to as many places and seen as many things as I have...so again, My point of view is as "valid" as any and has a bit more behind it than the average person.
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So you think that with all your experience your opinions are actually more justified than those of others? And you just dismiss his criticism because you think it is beneath you to debate them? It doesn't make you more right about things nor does it make someone else's opinion less valid.
People don't win debates by boasting about their self-proclaimed expertism on certain subjects. [img]graemlins/1disgust.gif[/img] [/QUOTE]No actually you are not correct in how you read my meaning. I am saying, MY opinion is at least founded on actual experience. Thats all, I didn't say I had more of a right to have one. Just that having one based on experience is going to make it by default more realisticly valid than one formed by someone who has never left the halls of acedemia or their home town. You cannot form meaningful preceptions of the state of the world if you do not venture forth into it. You can come up with really nice theories and pie charts but they won't have any bearing on reality.