A common strategy I've seen is for an opponent to cast doubt by making 50 weak rebuttals. Most of them are obviously logical fallacies, mostly red herrings, yet due to the sheer volume it is easy to get overwhelmed.
Then, when I don't respond to one,
Read more…Quick note to non-Americans. In America our liberals are considered conservative by other 1st world countries and our conservatives are considered ultra conservative. So just replace conservative with ultra conservative to make sense of this post. So
Read more…Libertarians seems to have the knee jerk reaction that everyone should choose what they want to eat. Other people seem to have the same argument.
Sample opponents' argument
Opponent 1"I eat what I want and you eat what you want. I don't care how much d
Read more…Hey, I've been battling in the forums a lot, and I can't seem to keep omnivores on the defensive. Example:
My argument
Meat should be banned for reasons x, y, z, a, b, and c. About 5,000 characters long.
Opponents' criticize my argument
That's completely
Read more…I recently fought an incredibly frustrating opponent. One who who would link to multiple lengthy links and claim information within the links that refuted my argument. Yet, my opponent wouldn't tell me which link contained the information nor q
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trying to help out a (vegan) friend here who recently got hit with this argument. now, its a bit of a mad argument anyway, because even if its true that they are not reimpregnating cows and thus producing disposable unwanted calves, its still no
Read more…Ok peeps, I need help
For several years, I've been working on researching and developing a thesis proposal that would hopefully help to increase compassion (i.e. my codeword for promoting veganism/stopping killing of animals) amongst a Catholic audie
Read more…this was sent to me by the wonderful debbie took who was an excellent contributor to 30bad for many months.
it is a writing opportunity provided by a "well-known international raw food/health magazine". in fact, as debbie puts it:
"It's a golden opport
hi--not sure if i should post this on the main board so more people will see it or here?
Mercy for Animals got COSTCO to quit buying veal calves from a despicable farm.
Hi,
I was hesitant with signign up with facebook because I ain't into other peoples drama but I have learned that it can be a good annoying tool.
I figure we can collectively post comments here and then we can be all over them like a fat kid on smartie
Hi,
I want to start making youtube videos using text and some images possibly with music.
Any suggestions on some good simple east to use Free software?
I think youtube can be used to benefit our friends and educate others.
Take Care,
i received this in an email from bigG. he asks several very important questions here so i thought we should discuss the ideas in a thread. i have paraphrased a couple of the questions.
1. What should be the focus for AR here in Canada?
2. Do we need n
it seems our fine 30badigos keep getting banned at gitmr simply for revealing the truth about those who practise cruelty on animals. these are people who in part or in total imprison, exploit, abuse and murder other sentient beings for their own grat
Read more…kel has a comprehensive ar faq here:
http://yourcybercourt.info/arveg/arvegFAQ.html
it is huge!
we would like to present it through a database system so that someone could type in a keyword and see the various questions that come up as well as the
this thread is for victims of cruelty who don't get as much publicity as say those in the factory farms or fur industry.
i think it's important to keep track of them even if we don't make them a major campaign.
some think that we should not even talk a
http://news-briefs.ew.com/2010/03/24/sarah-palin-discovery/
http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/TV/03/24/sarah.palin.reality.tv.ppl/index.html
How can the Discovery Channel offer Sarah Palin her own show about Alaska?
What in the world are they thinking?
(I
this is one of the most important avenues activists have.
the stats apparently show that more people read letters to the editor than anything other than the front page (and possibly the sports page).
we need to respond for various reasons such as:
1) to
Oddly enough many our most vociferous opponents are failed ethical vegans. They seem to be unusually passionate in their attempts to point out the dubiousness of the veg endeavor and/or how we ethical veg folk really shouldn't be telling other people
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