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Frazzled wrote:And I don't believe him, at all.
I believe prosecutors and police more than Dogma.

Of course you do. It's what you do all the time. You have your side, and you believe everything they say, and dismiss everything the other side says. At no point do you ever stop and actually consider the facts of the situation.

It's why you keep being wrong about stuff.

Elmodiddly wrote:
From what I can gather, from the reviews I read, those who examined the whole book as a review piece left more rational and less emotional reviews than those who admitted to not finishing the book.

Weird that.

I don't think its that odd. Rationality is at odds with emotion, and if you can suppress your emotions, or simply do not experience emotions, when reading something that is nominally distasteful, then there is a good chance that you can also produce solid arguments about the thing in question.

I mean, take me for example, I'm a pretty cold person in general. I don't have strong feelings about many things, and those strong feelings that I have are pretty easy for me to control (when sober). I was able to read the book because I didn't have any sort of gut reaction to its content. It was just a book containing sentences about concepts, events, and things, just like any other.