Logical Note

[billroper]

If you state that you are in favor of X and work to make X happen, you are not allowed to claim credit for not-X occurring despite your best efforts to get X instead.

That is all.

Comments

[madfilkentist]

But what if this hypothetical "you" is so despised that he knows people will support whatever he's against, and uses his unpopularity as a tool of reverse psychology? :)

[billroper]

To be honest, I don't think anyone's that smart. :)

Or that despised.

[kevinnickerson.livejournal.com]

Watching the SOTU, I presume.

[billroper]

Actually, no, if you look at the time stamp. I was helping Katie with her homework during the SOTU, which was a much more productive use of time. :)

I have, however, been reading reports on various speeches during the last few weeks...

[kevinnickerson.livejournal.com]

Oh. Timestamps. I don't think I trust them. (no, I just didn't pay attention to it)

I watched the SOTU. There were two things wrong with it. 1) It was just after a con, so I was not drinking. 2) Although I was tempted to drink, I had a cat on my lap and didn't want to disturb him by getting a bottle of wine. Oh, I guess 3) I didn't have a predetermined set of cues as to when I should have taken a drink.