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Elecrockcity t1_jad34l8 wrote

Reply to comment by 3720-To-One in A renewed push to legalize ‘medical aid in dying’ by d5dq

Do you see how your argument relies on personal attack for effect? The name calling, the straw man, the appeals to emotion?

Look at you, defending the state again like a good little statist. You’re being used. And then you’re pointing at me and crying, “blasphemer! Don’t question the state - they’re granting me agency!”

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Elecrockcity t1_jad7gx0 wrote

Do you think that me calling you a statist is a personal attack?

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Elecrockcity t1_jad7xxb wrote

You mean like when you called me a masochist that supports grandpa’s suffering a tormented death?

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Elecrockcity t1_jad8l9a wrote

I didn’t argue against that point because it’s absurd. And you are correct, that was not you - my mistake.

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Elecrockcity t1_jada3m0 wrote

Statist is not an insult any more than conservative is.

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Elecrockcity t1_jadiags wrote

Are you implying that you know better than I my intent in using a word? I think that’s pretty absurd. If I wanted to use a pejorative, I would find one better than statist. I am simply making an observation, not an insult. You are defending state actions and assigning them moral superiority based only on the fact that the state decreed them. That is - definitionally - statism. You are an agent of the state and treat the state as an authority with moral superiority.

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