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Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet
perhaps but then we sometimes speak to people out with the forum confines..
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Originally Posted by kirklancaster
Nor would Livia, T.S. and I can 10,000% GUARANTEE that Liv is not only what she purports to be but is FAR, FAR more.
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Fair, but again, this is extra knowledge that
you (both) happen to have and, again, you can't expect other members not privvy to such "extra information" to simply accept it as being true. So while it might lend extra weight to posts
for you and for others with this information, you can't reasonably expect it to do the same for those who don't.
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As for: "accepting someone's opinion on a forum as being superior because of what they "claim to be": I think that could have been better worded because it is more a case of; 'being more inclined to accept the opinion of someone who has great expertise in the relevant field than accepting the word opinion of someone who does not'.
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Again that's fair (taking into consideration the above) but I would still counter that while it does lend extra weight to what someone has to say, there are VERY few people in the world who are "infallible experts" and, also, people have their own political leanings etc. that will feed into their assessment of something like this... especially on an informal forum where no one is expected to behave professionally or be neutral.
TBH in this case, it's surely a case of "LT's usual stance on US cop stuff" - NONE of us have the full story on why Robinson was arrested... so, qualifications are sort of irrelevant... and we should surely just trust that the people who are both qualified AND in full possession of the facts have made the right call
. After all... Tommy has made a fair mint from his social media celebrity, so I have no doubt that he has his own highly qualified lawyers fighting his corner.