Take a deep breath...exhale. Think "happy" thoughts. Feel better? Great. Now that you have found your "happy place", we can have a reasonable discussion. Before you fly off the handle and post silly comments to the blogger's article, read the following.
The article you were reading may contain, in your view, an extreme point of view. The blogger is most likely trying to get a reaction from you by "pushing your buttons". He or she may be using satire. He or she may be demonstrating absurdity by being absurd. Don't let yourself be played as a fool. You are smarter than that.
Avoid the temptation to be a Kool-Aid drinker:
What is a Kool-Aid drinker you ask? It has nothing to do with the fine product made by the good people at Kraft Foods. Kool-Aid drinker is slang for a blind zealot who cannot be convinced to see past his own narrow ideology, no matter what kind of evidence or persuasion you put before him. The term actually originates from the 1978 Jonestown, Guyana massacre where a cult committed mass suicide on the orders of their religious leader Jim Jones. Many of the more than 900 deaths resulted from voluntarily drinking a poison-laced fruity drink similar to Kool-Aid. A Kool-Aid drinker is slang for anyone who refuses to thoughtfully consider all sides of an argument, blindly following the narrow constructs of their reality. Kool-Aid drinkers are slaves to their ideology, which is the only well they drink from.
Kool-Aid drinkers use the following tactics against those they disagree with:
Kool-Aid drinkers avoid making intelligent counter arguments and choose to instead call the person names or use negative labels.
Kool-Aid drinkers insult the intelligence of the person they disagree with and suggest he or she is too stupid to know what he or she is talking about.
Kool-Aid drinkers often use a logical fallacy. The most common Kool-Aid drinker logical fallacy is known as multiple modus ponens (modus ponens can also be referred to as Affirming the Antecedent) committed by reasoning the form: If A, then B. If B, then C. A, therefore C. Example: "If you own an Apple computer, you are a liberal. Liberals support abortion. Therefore if own an Apple computer, you support abortion. Try not to make illogical leaps.
We love to point out Kool-Aid drinkers. So, elevate yourself to our level and try to fight the blogger's article with your impeccable reasoning ability. Blogtronics is EXTREME blogging. Please don't try this at home. Leave it to the professionals.
