Any belief system that takes criticism of it as evidence of it's validity

[sibelian]

can be thrown away.

'Nuff said.

[kcr]

1. Oh, really?

Only people who believe their belief systems can't be criticized should be taken seriously?

[sibelian]

2. Nnnnnooooo.

Belief systems that need ways of deflecting the impact of criticism by framing the ACT of criticism as a validation of the belief system itself.... are flawed.

Should I edit my OP?

[kcr]

3. It might help if you actually gave an example of what you're talking about.

How, exactly, are they deflecting the impact of the criticism.

[sibelian]

4. Welll...

There was a rather long thread on this site not so long ago with a list of complaints against a subset of the membership. The last point on the list was that the badness that the aforemention subset was responsible for would be a confirmed hypothesis if the subset themselves were irritated by the list.

[kcr]

5. Yeah, okay. That didn't help.

And, it sounds like this is about DU drama so I'll bow out. I don't want to be on the wrong side.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

6. Oh, yeah. That thing. That's like saying --

"If you're offended by being called and obnoxious jackass then that just proves you're an obnoxious jackass." or "Only wife-beaters deny being wife-beaters."