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acki's avatar

Just seen your talk with Aisling, you were fantastic, unbiased and methodical in your assessment of things, what a true journalist should be. I felt Aisling was slightly influenced by her emotions in her judgement. Nonetheless a very good discussion with some very interesting points and I agree with you, everything should be scrutinized and no one should be offended by that.

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Lynne Sheppard's avatar

I enjoyed this conversation and kudos to both of you for keeping it extremely civil and listening to each other’s points of view, even when you strongly disagree on some important issues.

For me it was interesting to observe the stark differences between; someone who can calmly and logically outline an argument and, someone who has been completely blindsided by their emotions. It’s astonishing to me how Aisling is not able to comprehend the sheer flimsiness and logical fallacy-riddled content of her position which includes such highlights as; ‘their injuries prove there was a bomb’, ‘if you can’t prove they are lying they must be telling the truth and, my personal favourite; ‘it’s true/false because I say it is’!!

Nevertheless my gut is telling me that she is not doing this deliberately and this could be a case of the ‘brain mush’ phase I think we inevitably go through when moving from mainstream normie life into a world where there appears to be an almost infinite number of rabbit holes to investigate.

One thing where I do agree with her is that healthy debate is important, so more of this please.

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