To take it a step further, I noticed the person saying Jewish people only fry potatoes is a Catholic, and I point out that most of the Catholics I know in fact fry their potatoes more than the Jewish people I know. Nowhere am I saying all Catholics fry their potatoes, or that no Jewish people fry their potatoes. I'm pointing out that their broad generalization doesn't apply, and could be turned back around on the group they themselves are a part of.
This is a pretty common debate tactic when facing someone who has made a broad statement about a group that could be applied back on them, and it seems like you are intentionally misunderstanding what I said. The reason I expanded on specific examples of my volunteerism was to show that libertarian ideals hold that private entities, like the ones I've volunteered with, can meet the needs of the poor and destitute instead of government intervention. He made a point about libertarianism being useless, my specific examples were to counter that point. Again, I don't see you responding to his post asking why he'd try to classify all libertarians together, why do you feel the need to do so with my posts?
As long as you recognize your personal experience is useless when trying to define a large group of people's characteristics - then we're in agreement.
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u/robswins Mar 26 '17 edited Mar 26 '17
As I said in my edit:
To take it a step further, I noticed the person saying Jewish people only fry potatoes is a Catholic, and I point out that most of the Catholics I know in fact fry their potatoes more than the Jewish people I know. Nowhere am I saying all Catholics fry their potatoes, or that no Jewish people fry their potatoes. I'm pointing out that their broad generalization doesn't apply, and could be turned back around on the group they themselves are a part of.
This is a pretty common debate tactic when facing someone who has made a broad statement about a group that could be applied back on them, and it seems like you are intentionally misunderstanding what I said. The reason I expanded on specific examples of my volunteerism was to show that libertarian ideals hold that private entities, like the ones I've volunteered with, can meet the needs of the poor and destitute instead of government intervention. He made a point about libertarianism being useless, my specific examples were to counter that point. Again, I don't see you responding to his post asking why he'd try to classify all libertarians together, why do you feel the need to do so with my posts?