You made some caustic allegations. Now back them up.

C. James Strutz wrote:
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>>>> Let's have some specifics here.
>>>
>>>
>>> Let's see, you are WAY far to the right politically,
>>
>>
>> DAMMIT, BE SPECIFIC. Which of my views is "WAY far to the right"?
>
>
> I'm not going there. The more specific I get the more defensive you will
> get, particularly regarding politics.


I'm defensive NOW because you've gone chickenshit on this. Don't throw
out things you can't or won't support. You opened the door, now come on
in and speak. Which of my views is "WAY far to the right"?

>> Examples?
>>
>>> your peculiar opposition to vegans
>>
>>
>> Veganism IS peculiar. Opposition to it is quite conventional. What world
>> do you
>> live in all of a sudden? Shall I find all the whiny posts in this
group's
>> archives about airlines and hotels and restaurants not catering to every
>> vegan's whims?
>
>
> Note that peculiar doesn't describe veganism in my sentence, it describes
> your 180 degree shift to oppose it. You suddenly became a staunch and
> vehement opponent to veganism. I'm not making a case for or against
veganism
> here.


My opposition is not peculiar. You're fully aware of when and why I
stopped carrying water for vegans here. It may have stunned you or
something, but that doesn't make it peculiar. If anything is peculiar,
it's that I ever parroted the rhetoric of a political philosophy I never
shared -- and some certainly did find it peculiar that I was a
Republican whose diet was "vegan."

>>> even though you have a vegan diet,
>>
>>
>> My diet is irrelevant to my beliefs. So, too, is the fact that I run.
>
>
> A vegan or vegan-like diet is unconventional in the broad sense. It says
> that something about you is different. And how much do you run a week? 40
> miles? 50 miles? That's a lot, more than all but marathon trainers.


It's relative: running 10 miles a week is a lot to a couch potato who
can't run 20 yards without getting winded. But does it have anything to
do with being unconventional? I don't think so.

>>> you regularly run marathon distances, etc. It
>>> all points to someone who tends to be unconventional.
>>
>>
>> Ipse dixit. I may be a complex person, but I am not unconventional.
>
>
> Being unconventional isn't a bad thing. To the contrary, many creative
> people are unconventional.


What's your point, James? You made some claims about me that you're
refusing to support. I don't care for a discourse about what makes
someone unconventional, your claim was about me. Tell me why you think
I'm not conventional.

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>> Still waiting for specifics.
>
>
> Wait longer.


Just as I suspected. What a chickenshit.

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