Yahoo Bot wrote:According to my long-established position, anonymous sources are almost always to be mistrusted and ignored, per historical method. Of course, there may be exceptions.
My rule applies particularly to defenders of the Church, as I can't imagine that an anonymous voice is qualified for evangelism. ...
Defenders, what say you?
If you have previously posted anonymously, will you now cease to do so, and expose your in real life identity so that you meet Yahoo Bot's standard?
NOMinal member
Maksutov: "... if you give someone else the means to always push your buttons, you're lost."
I’d say it’s a terrible historical method. This is Bob throwing around the genetic fallacy so he can move around evidence he doesn’t like, strict propositional deductive logic shows that even false premises can lead to true conclusions. You don’t ignore what a source says based on anonymity, because that doesn’t prohibit a source from being correct, at least in partial.
This is Crocket we are talking about here, not exactly the most stellar guy to come down the Mopologetics pipeline.
When I think about what YB is saying about anonymous defenders, I wonder what their concern is. I mean, it's not like they cannot expect their god to protect them, is it? ... Is it?
What do defenders have to be afraid of in going public?
What do they have to lose?
Have they reason to be afraid for their lives?
Might their businesses be affected by the sudden departure of non-member/critic customers?
Might they be shunned (perhaps divorced) as a result of their families and friends finding out that they had been closet believers.
Might they be refused admittance to the non-LDS temple to witness the marriage of their child?
Compared to many of the critics, there doesn't seem to be much of a downside for the defenders. Why do some of them remain anonymous?
[[by the way, in case anyone misunderstands me, I am NOT saying that defenders, or anyone else, should not have the right to determine, individually, what the pros and cons of exposure are on a message board.]]
NOMinal member
Maksutov: "... if you give someone else the means to always push your buttons, you're lost."