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[waterspyder]

I just had a metaphorical argument with my philosophy prof about polyamory.
He equated it to quantity over quality and so the argument is that the polyamorous lover would rather eat 12 hot dogs for dinner rather than a well cooked steak dinner.

I think this was the first time he's had a student ask "But you're still goign to get tired of eating steak dinner every night. What if you could have steak dinner some nights, chicken cordon bleu on other nights and a good glazed ham on others. You would appreciate the other meals more when you had them wouldn't you?"

To which he replied "That's not what the author is saying"

I'm really sick of him using that answer rather than arguing a line of logic.

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[feli-valkyria.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a cop-out. He had no answer to your argument so he lost.

[simply-fiendish.livejournal.com]

When I first started considering being poly my friend Hawk asked me, "Do you love your daughter?"
"Of course, with all my heart", I replied.
She then asks, "When your son was born, do you love him?"
"Of course, I love him also with all my heart."
"Did you love Natasha any less when Carter entered your life?"
"Not at all. My love grows for both of them and neither is loved less."
She then told me it is the same for her in polyamorous relationships.
I have to agree with her. I do believe you can love more than one without it diminishing the first or any that follows.

[mellian.livejournal.com]

I dislike it when people evade and retreat like that in a discussion and debates.

Like in the debate I am currently having, which I have every so often with people on this board, about genetics, biology and evolution in regards to homosexuality. The person keeps retreating to this silly argument that biology and evolution has this set plan as his argument that homosexuality isn't natural in any way. Quite annoying.

-mellian

[andifferous.livejournal.com]

I am not sure about university profs, but I know that high school teachers were afraid of those sorts of debates. Or they would silence everyone when two students were ready to debate over something like that.

[zenten.livejournal.com]

Was he discussing something in particular that an author said, or was it just a debate about polyamoury?

[feli-valkyria.livejournal.com]

"I think that when a professor adds his personal opinion as matter of lecture, he is leaving himself open to be argued with."

Oh, you should have been there when I heard my Psychology of Women professor say that no woman should ever participate in BDSM because it's degrading, and that research states that all women who do BDSM do it because they were abused in the past. She told me something along the lines of "I don't like to think of negative things and I don't think anyone else in the world should take satisfaction out of being beaten or beating someone else, even consensually. I think women should focus more on sunshines and flowers and pretty things." WTF?!!!

When exam time came rolling around, there was a question about our opinion of the course and lectures. You can bet I really spoke out on the above. I said something along the lines of the professor injected her own personal opinion using research which I am sure she used confirmatory bias on -- she already has a negative view of women who do BDSM and would only be willing to accept those research findings that confirm her idea that they all have been abused in the bast.... I mentioned that the prof herself told us that research is biased ... and I wrote down that "feminism is about *choice*" .. and there is a submissive woman I know who said that, along with the "I choose to submit" ...