LordsFire
Internet Wizard
I'm not sure if you're misunderstanding or mischaracterizing my argument.You seem to have forgotten your own post. The post you quoted is replying to
which is a tangent where you expanded and generalized away from discussing ben shapiro to instead discussing the trust of ANYONE who is in the public eye, in particularly those who are part of the "political process".
This is clearly stating that we should just trust politicians. Therefore I replied to you about those who hold political office rather than ben shapiro specifically.
Saying "ben shapiro does not hold political office" is pivoting back to the original argument about ben shapiro. But we were discussing this tangent on whether or not public officials can be trusted.
As for Ben shapiro himself. He is an influencer. His job is making money off of people tuning in to what he has to say in public about politics.
In this regard he is more of a televangelist than a politician. But he televangelizes about political subjects even if he does not run for office.
We were talking about Ben Shapiro.
You said you didn't trust what is seen of him, due to incentives to present a false persona in his field of work.
I said distrusting someone just for being in the public eye was dysfunctionally cynical, and I specifically used 'in the public eye' as a broad term, because it covers a lot of bases.
Your argument against this specifically cited how politicians make promises, then fail to keep those promises.
I pointed out that the habits of politicians have no direct bearing on Ben Shapiro, because he is not a politician, but a media commentator/media company owner. While politicians certainly are in the public eye, they are not the same thing as media commentators, and do not have the same incentives.
Your response to this is... something about semantics of what terms have and have not been used?
What is your argument here?