I feel betrayed... I had been talking to this girl online for a few months, and after all this time she turns out to be a conspiracy theorist. I had suspected her of being one of those less intellectually-endowed people who think that space exploration is a waste of money, so I gave her a simple question to test her feelings on the subject... it all went downhill from there.
And that's where she went offline... probably by blocking me. Was I maybe too harsh by calling her a moron right at the beginning there? Everything I know about debating I learned at Massassi...
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Me: another hypothetical situation:
Me: you are now the president of the United States. you have a very importan budget decision to make. you have a total budget of one billion dollars to spend on cancer research and space exploration. do you:
a) give all of it to cancer research
b) give 500 million to each, or
c) give all of it to space exploration ?
Her: neither
Her: first of all, i believe there is already a cure for cancer
Me: you're completely avoiding the point of the question
Her: second of all, space exploration is a joke...because I don't believe man landed on the moon...and we could never live on marx
Me: fine, change it to AIDS research
Her: *mars
Her: no...maybe if i had to give it to AID other countries, id do that
Her: like debt forgiveness
Me: okay fine, you have a trillion with which you... wait, you don't believe man landed on the moon?
Me: [censored] you really are a moron...
Her: excuse me?
Me: i mean.. seriously
Me: you can't honestly think that
Her: first off, i dont believe that they landed on the moon because a.) they would've done it again, b.) the russians would have done it too, and c.) you can't get all your info from one moon landing
Me: okay, you know how i can tell that you're seriously misinformed?
Me: let's have a quiz... i'll make it really easy... How many manned moon landings have there been, in total?
1) one
2) *SIX*
*hint* #2 is the correct answer
Me: anyways, hopefully the [censored] conspiracy theorists will be shut up soon; i think the James Webb space telescope will have the resolving power to see the landing sites and hardware
Me: of course it's not supposed to be launched until like 2011, so that means i have to endure 6 more years of "omg tehre werent no moon landing, no-sir-ee, i saw it on the INTARNETS so it must be TRUE"
Her: [censored] you
Me: seriously, give me any evidence you have that the moon landings never happened, and i'll show you why that evidence is wrong
Her: w/e
Me: well, i understand... wouldn't want to upset your delicate narrow-minded worldview... let's instead go back to the "cure for cancer" thing... you believe there is already a cure for cancer? that sure would have come in handy last year when my aunt died from it... are you just trying to be insensitive, or is there an actual reason why you believe this?
Me: you are now the president of the United States. you have a very importan budget decision to make. you have a total budget of one billion dollars to spend on cancer research and space exploration. do you:
a) give all of it to cancer research
b) give 500 million to each, or
c) give all of it to space exploration ?
Her: neither
Her: first of all, i believe there is already a cure for cancer
Me: you're completely avoiding the point of the question
Her: second of all, space exploration is a joke...because I don't believe man landed on the moon...and we could never live on marx
Me: fine, change it to AIDS research
Her: *mars
Her: no...maybe if i had to give it to AID other countries, id do that
Her: like debt forgiveness
Me: okay fine, you have a trillion with which you... wait, you don't believe man landed on the moon?
Me: [censored] you really are a moron...
Her: excuse me?
Me: i mean.. seriously
Me: you can't honestly think that
Her: first off, i dont believe that they landed on the moon because a.) they would've done it again, b.) the russians would have done it too, and c.) you can't get all your info from one moon landing
Me: okay, you know how i can tell that you're seriously misinformed?
Me: let's have a quiz... i'll make it really easy... How many manned moon landings have there been, in total?
1) one
2) *SIX*
*hint* #2 is the correct answer
Me: anyways, hopefully the [censored] conspiracy theorists will be shut up soon; i think the James Webb space telescope will have the resolving power to see the landing sites and hardware
Me: of course it's not supposed to be launched until like 2011, so that means i have to endure 6 more years of "omg tehre werent no moon landing, no-sir-ee, i saw it on the INTARNETS so it must be TRUE"
Her: [censored] you
Me: seriously, give me any evidence you have that the moon landings never happened, and i'll show you why that evidence is wrong
Her: w/e
Me: well, i understand... wouldn't want to upset your delicate narrow-minded worldview... let's instead go back to the "cure for cancer" thing... you believe there is already a cure for cancer? that sure would have come in handy last year when my aunt died from it... are you just trying to be insensitive, or is there an actual reason why you believe this?
And that's where she went offline... probably by blocking me. Was I maybe too harsh by calling her a moron right at the beginning there? Everything I know about debating I learned at Massassi...
