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lederhosen who was kind enough to find a link that didn't have pictures) a Livejournal user was brutally beaten by a man she met at a convention. Posts including pictures can be found, along with comments about how it's especially horrible that this happened to "such a pretty girl." (Violent people take note, you'll get far less outcry if you punch an ugly fat chick.)
In this story, also making the rounds, a "Crisis Pregnancy Center" (a.k.a. an organization which seeks to counsel pregnant women against abortion) takes advantage of someone who walked into their office rather than the Planned Parenthood, collects her information, then takes some very immoral (and illegal) actions by informing her classmates at school and calling the police against the Planned Parenthood.
However--
The supposed victim in the first case posts, asking people to stay out of it. "There is no bad guy. There is no good guy... because things... they happen.... the people who need to know do, and no one else is even close."
In this comment to the second entry, someone comments that there are no mainstream media reports and Planned Parenthood has said nothing about this case on their site (ETA: http://www.plannedparenthood.org/pp2/portal/getinvolved/takeaction/ thankshewet_ka_ptah for the link-- they do mention it)
Now, here's my thought of the day.
If I were someone who were thoroughly, terribly committed to a cause, and I wished to argue others into believing in my cause, the FIRST thing I would do is tie my side of the argument to as many "good" things as I could: supporting the troops, protecting children, the economy, religion or moral values, not kicking puppies, and so on.
The SECOND thing I would do is try to make my opponents look stupid, ill-informed, and wrong. Getting them to scream their outraged loudest about things that I can then show never actually happened, or weren't anything like what they're carrying on about, would be a GREAT first step there.
Not everything you see or read is true or complete, and if you're being urged to go into full-hysteria mode, you need to consider carefully what good it will do for your ideals-- and what it can do against them if you're wrong.
lederhosen who was kind enough to find a link that didn't have pictures) a Livejournal user was brutally beaten by a man she met at a convention. Posts including pictures can be found, along with comments about how it's especially horrible that this happened to "such a pretty girl." (Violent people take note, you'll get far less outcry if you punch an ugly fat chick.)In this story, also making the rounds, a "Crisis Pregnancy Center" (a.k.a. an organization which seeks to counsel pregnant women against abortion) takes advantage of someone who walked into their office rather than the Planned Parenthood, collects her information, then takes some very immoral (and illegal) actions by informing her classmates at school and calling the police against the Planned Parenthood.
However--
The supposed victim in the first case posts, asking people to stay out of it. "There is no bad guy. There is no good guy... because things... they happen.... the people who need to know do, and no one else is even close."
In this comment to the second entry, someone comments that there are no mainstream media reports and Planned Parenthood has said nothing about this case on their site (ETA: http://www.plannedparenthood.org/pp2/portal/getinvolved/takeaction/ thanks
hewet_ka_ptah for the link-- they do mention it)Now, here's my thought of the day.
If I were someone who were thoroughly, terribly committed to a cause, and I wished to argue others into believing in my cause, the FIRST thing I would do is tie my side of the argument to as many "good" things as I could: supporting the troops, protecting children, the economy, religion or moral values, not kicking puppies, and so on.
The SECOND thing I would do is try to make my opponents look stupid, ill-informed, and wrong. Getting them to scream their outraged loudest about things that I can then show never actually happened, or weren't anything like what they're carrying on about, would be a GREAT first step there.
Not everything you see or read is true or complete, and if you're being urged to go into full-hysteria mode, you need to consider carefully what good it will do for your ideals-- and what it can do against them if you're wrong.
