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Originally Posted by DVaut1
If you or I literally were affiliated with a white supremacist's think tank, though, I think that ... would indicate a stronger likelihood of being a white supremacist yourself.
Not necessarily, actually. If I think the world is round and just about everyone else I ever meet believes it is flat, I'll be way more likely to want to talk with anyone who also sees it as round.
It might be that you found out it was round because you're a child molester and you ride a raft to exotic islands to molest children, so you figured it out. That's unfortunate. But if I was determined to help people understand that the world is round, you might end up having information that helps me. And in this case it sharply reduces the likelihood that I would necessarily have other things in common with you (because the incentive to talk to you is already so high).
Whatever I eat for lunch today will indicate an increased likelihood of really enjoying that food. But if I'm starving on an island, it indicates little or nothing beyond that this is the food I was able to find. If I never talk about enjoying gizzard guts, it probably isn't fair to suggest I'm likely to enjoy them. "If you eat something it indicates a likelihood that you enjoy it" might sound nice, but it overlooks the chance I was starving (it actually assumes the perspective where I'm necessarily
not starving).
Last edited by ALawPoker; 02-17-2009 at 05:01 PM.