Tough Questions

[frank462]

Tough questions are you ready?


If you knew a woman who was pregnant, who had 8 kids
already, three who were deaf, two who were blind,
one mentally retarded, and she had syphilis, would
you recommend that she have an abortion?


Read the next question before looking at the
response for this one.



Question 2:
It is time to elect a new world leader, and only
your vote counts. Here are the facts about the three
candidates.







Candidate A.
Associates with crooked politicians, and consults
with astrologist. He's had two mistresses. He also
chain smokes and drinks 8 to 10 martinis a day.










Candidate B.
He was kicked out of office twice, sleeps until
noon, used opium in college and drinks a quart of
whiskey every evening.










Candidate C
He is a decorated war hero. He's a vegetarian,
doesn't smoke, drinks an occasional beer and never
cheated on his wife.













Which of these candidates would be our choice?
Decide first... no peeking, then scroll down for the
response.


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Candidate A is Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Candidate B is Winston Churchill.
Candidate C is Adolph Hitler.






And, by the way, on your answer to the abortion
question: If you said YES, you just killed
Beethoven.




No big message here, just a little food for thought.

ETA - This is not, I repeat NOT, an anti-abortion thread. Please see my follow-up post (#5) below before attacking.

 

[kerikiwi]

Not enough food to nourish a thought.

 

[Alt+F4]

Ah, an anti-abortion, pro-Nazi thread, well we haven't had one of those for awhile.

 

[Puppycow]

Wait, who was Hitler's wife that he didn't cheat on? What was Eva Braun to him?

 

[frank462]

Whoa! You guys are all taking this way too seriously. First of all, this is NOT an anti-abortion thread. I would have advised the woman to not only have an abortion but also a tubal ligation. With regard to the politicians, I just found it interesting that people are not just "one thing". Humans are complex entities. I posted this thread to be entertaining and mildly interesting. Please don't take it so seriously.

 

[Jesus]

Whoa! You guys are all taking this way too seriously. First of all, this is NOT an anti-abortion thread. I would have advised the woman to not only have an abortion but also a tubal ligation. With regard to the politicians, I just found it interesting that people are not just "one thing". Humans are complex entities. I posted this thread to be entertaining and mildly interesting. Please don't take it so seriously.

You have to appreciate that most people here, including myself, have seen this "argument" before. It's trite, and rather pointless, so don't be surprised if some of the more jaded forum members give it heat.

 

[TragicMonkey]

I find myself unable to take giant green font seriously.

 

[Alt+F4]

I find myself unable to take giant green font seriously.

Why does giant green font hate America?

 

[Cleon]

A) Please do not recycle 20-year-old spam. Seriously, I've been seeing that same BS pop up in my email box since the Internet was an NSA project.

B) Giant colored fonts are bad, mmkay?

 

[This Guy]

Well, for what it's worth, I enjoyed it.

I knew C was Hitler, didn't know who the other two were though. And didn't know the Beethoven angle.

So, I killed Beethoven, and elected Hitler as world leader!

Cool!

Now for my next trick....

Let me get back to you on that. It's been a busy day.

 

[Ladewig]

Posts that include,

Decide first... no peeking, then scroll down for the response.

are usually more well-received in the community forum rather than the politics forum.

 

[The Shank]

Some nazi, can't even spell Adolf.

 

[Kerberos]

Wait, who was Hitler's wife that he didn't cheat on? What was Eva Braun to him?

I don't think Hitler was married untill late in the war and then to Eva Braun.

 

[Nick Bogaerts]

And didn't know the Beethoven angle.

That's because it is entirely made up. Snopes.

 

[This Guy]

That's because it is entirely made up. Snopes.

Ahh! That explains it then!

I only know REAL things!








Thanks

 

[Beerina]

Maybe without FDR, we'd have a slightly more advance society. Or maybe someone else might have come along and turned us fully USSR Communist, and we wouldn't even know what a microprocessor or clotbuster drug was, much less "an internets". Information would be censored, and many people would run around screaming the rightness of censorship.

If Huey Long hadn't been assasinated, who knows? Or maybe he would have been defeated in a presidential election and not amounted to much nationally after all.

I'm sure more than a few songs we'll never hear died with John Lennon, to say nothing of WWII's slaughter.

 

[fuelair]

Why does giant green font hate America?

Giant green beans cooked with smoked ham are welcome though!!!!!

 

[slingblade]

That's because it is entirely made up. Snopes.

Not "entirely," and that, I think is the ultimate point.

The Snopes article points out the cherry-picking of facts, and states that this is a good example of how playing Semantics can be so misleading.

The point is that there is just enough "fact" in the article to make it believable to the gullible, who probably have a couple of those tidbits stored in their own memories, and will feel them bubble to the top (much like a Magic 8-Ball) at being reminded. And this will enable the confirmation bias to operate.

A little learning is a dangerous thing. Those shallow draughts intoxicate the brain. So sayeth Pope.