Oooh, someone is getting a timeout
Blue= flat out lying
Next, that isn't what you said. What you said was that they were guilty by association. Guilty (Apart from my mom's ideas, anyway) means that you actually did something wrong. You have shifted your position. If you are saying that this is your brand new and in response to query argument, you are correct. I certainly would hope that you aren't doing this again.
-Penguin
me? doing it again?
you need to stop with the personal attacks. i am not
arguing with anyone here, but rather i am attempting to
discuss the topics at hand.
i try to do this respectfully, as moray has noted, but you, sir, make it very difficult.
by
guilty by association i meant that if one is in a group of liars, and knows that group is lying, then they themselves are guilty of lying.
look at it another way.
if someone murders your neighbor, and i'm standing right there, watching this happen, but do nothing.....does that not make me guilty by association? i would think so.
what i was talking about was the same principle.
or even another example.
my neighbor has 2 kids....both teens. i trust her daughter to look after my mother when she's staying up here. why? because of the people her daughter hangs out with.
i do not trust her son, and will not allow him in my house. why? because of the people he hangs out with.
so......should a scientist be a member of group "A", and 2 or 3 members of said group are lying, massaging/changing numbers, etc, and said scientist knows of this, then he also is guilty. unless he either outs them, or upon finding out, leaves the group.
it really is quite simple. if you're as young as you say you are(i'm still giving you the benefit of the doubt there), you may not understand this yet.
if you're in your teens, you should though.