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Originally Posted by Cowboy89
I can respect the career he built for himself in light of his previous addictions, but I don't have to respect his opinion on the issue of this thread. Maybe a better way to describe him in the context of this thread is that maybe his experience doesn't lend itself towards the most thoughtful discussion of what's wrong with the world politically and how to fix it.
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So basically you're taking the ad hominem approach then? This is one of the premises of his argument. We're appropriating political agency and/or advocacy to only those people who fit within an existing paradigm, and that paradigm is failing.