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Last wordism

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'''Last wordism''' is the belief that victory can be obtained in a [[liberal]] tactic used in an informal [[debate]] or discussion , resorting in the belief that victory can be achieved by having the "last word."Some argue that '''A statement can be identified as last wordism''' if it adds no new information or substance to an argument. It is often a characteristic intended to achieve its effect through recency<ref>"Recency" is the state of being "recent", as in "less intellectually robust presentationsmost recent."<ref>http://www.cslewisinstitute.org/pages/resources/books/reviews/CaseforChrist.pdf</ref>rather than through relevance.
'''Last wordism''' often betrays the weaknesses of "less intellectually robust presentations."<ref>http://www.cslewisinstitute.org/pages/resources/books/reviews/CaseforChrist.pdf</ref> At best, last wordism is a childish tactic characteristic of [[liberal style]]. At worst, it reflects a lack of restraintpersonal responsibility or [[bullying]], which is a characteristic of wrongdoing or [[sin]]fulness. The ultimate in '''One such example of the use of last wordism''' was men choosing to by liberals is when a liberal [[Crucifixion|crucify]] [[Jesustroll]]on a conservative comment board posts a trolling comment in response to a conservative poster, then deletes the comment, either immediately before the poster can reply or while the poster is in the middle of writing a reply in order to successfully prevent the poster from replying (in the form of an error popping up when the poster attempts to post his reply, saying that the comment had been deleted), in effect getting the "last word," but in reality demonstrating the childishness and the cowardice of the troll in question.  Another childish form of "last-wordism" used by liberals on comment boards (including those powered by Disqus), particularly when they lose an argument with a conservative, is to declare that they are "blocking" a conservative opponent (i.e. to hide the "blocked" user's comments from the "blocker's" own view so they do not have to see said comments) right after replying to the conservative, which God responded in reality is the liberal lacking the courage of his convictions and taking the coward's way out by resorting to this tactic, in effect admitting (implicitly, if not outright) that the liberal lost the argument. Incessantly spamming large blocs of text with off-beat, off topic, irrelevant information as a form of deflection to attempt to subtly change the topic from an embarrassing position or response is another form of last wordism. Resorting to a childish [[Resurrection Parthian shot]] (as in the second example noted above) is an example of Christ[[last wordism]].
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