In the comments of my last post, big dog of the Gunblogosphere and proprietor of the famous Boomershot (auto-start audio warning!) Joe Huffman reiterated his common refrain that some people lack the ability to determine true from false.
In simple terms, most people can tell the difference between truth a not truth. Normal people can evaluate evidence, weigh facts, and come to a conclusion about whether or not a given hypothesis about reality ACTUALLY REFLECTS YOU KNOW, ACTUAL REALITY!!!
I can tell you that fire burns or rocks are hard. You can disagree if you like. I can light a fire under your backside and hit you over the head with a rock. What I can’t ever make you do is accept that fire burns and rocks are hard. You have to evaluate the evidence you are given (hopefully not so dramatically in your normal life) and decide if fire, in fact, burns and rocks are, in truth, hard.
Some people are so wedded to the monologue inside their own heads that no matter how many times their butt burns or their head aches, nothing gets through. It’s a mental defect. Joe further proposes
To the best of my knowledge we don't have a word or phrase for her type of mental defect. Perhaps Peterson Syndrome could be used...
So there you have it. She suffers from Peterson Syndrome. Now you know the symptoms, go forth and diagnose!
Update: This is what Peterson Syndrome looks like
We must do something to find a cure! These people deserve to live a normal life!
ReplyDeleteI suspect there is no cure.
ReplyDeleteThere may be a genetic component because I know entire families that suffer from it. But that could just be an environmental thing. If it is environmental then perhaps it can be prevented.
Tests should be throughly developed and applied at an young age to see if some sort of early intervention can help.
It goes without saying that any job with decision making power over others should screen for this.
More study, and ultimately action, is required.
The latest series of posts and comments are getting more and more hysterical, and she's just posted some highly irrelevant piece on militias (because all gun owners are anti-government right-wingers) and a series of comments claiming there's no reason to understand guns if you're going to regulate them.
ReplyDeleteI think it's time to move on from her blog, and let it fade away. It's been interesting trying to engage with the anti-gun side, but it's just a little sad now.
Anon,
ReplyDeleteI respectfully disagree. Let's keep posting and engage Ms. Peterson -- don't interrupt someone when they are making a mistake.
Before, she sounded reasonable "Hey we need to do something about these horrible deaths".
Now, she is coming across as more and more extreme, more illogical 'you can't compare a knife and a gun' -- really?
I think the more people post, the more people who link to her site; the more people will realize the depths anti-rights advocates will sink to in order to get their way.
It is kind of funny watching the mask of sanity slip off.
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