@PineCreekDoug is very well-practiced with his rhetorical tools, but he is overly eager to apply them to every topic he has an opinion about. In this example, Doug appears to believe that being transgender is equally as baseless as feeling the inner witness of the Holy Spirit. In response, I pointed out that many other “only in your head” conditions could be seen this way, such as autism, sociopathy, depression, etc., but all of these things have well-established diagnostic criteria, which is why we generally accept that autism and sociopathy and trans people are real, not just faking it or “playing” for emotional reasons. Doug simply ignored those counter-examples, like a Christian apologist ignoring slavery in the Bible. In his video, Doug asks a good question, and applies his rhetorical tools well, but hasn’t considered how his argument could be applied to other things he believes are real. He likes to have fun, but sometimes you need to sit and reflect a bit first.
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@PineCreekDoug is very well-practiced with his rhetorical tools, but he is overly eager to apply them to every topic he has an opinion about. In this example, Doug appears to believe that being transgender is equally as baseless as feeling the inner witness of the Holy Spirit. In response, I pointed out that many other “only in your head” conditions could be seen this way, such as autism, sociopathy, depression, etc., but all of these things have well-established diagnostic criteria, which is why we generally accept that autism and sociopathy and trans people are real, not just faking it or “playing” for emotional reasons. Doug simply ignored those counter-examples, like a Christian apologist ignoring slavery in the Bible. In his video, Doug asks a good question, and applies his rhetorical tools well, but hasn’t considered how his argument could be applied to other things he believes are real. He likes to have fun, but sometimes you need to sit and reflect a bit first.
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