Am I "Moving the Goal Posts"?

Maybe. Or maybe you aren't allowed to move the goal posts for me.

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I got a little story about moving the goalposts. Now that is a way of talking about somebody who asks for specific information and then receives that information says they still aren't satisfied because it doesn't have X, Y, and Z. Now, that could be a sign that somebody is indeed uh you know trying more interested in proving themselves right than in being proven wrong. That is a sign of intellectual dishonesty. And it can be unfair as you were constantly changing somebody's cha somebody's inconsistent uh uh if somebody being inconsistent, trying to nail them down because you have information. I've got a little story about a time when that sort of didn't happen. Maybe you can learn something from it. It was back when Broe v. Wade was overturned, and the decision concerning abortion and who funds it and how and what it's allowed to be was driven back over to the States, as is proper according to the Tenth Amendment of the Constitution. So a friend's friend was panicking online and saying, you know, this is the start of women being arrested for having miscarriages. And now I try to be fair about these things because she lived in a state that I did not. So I asked her, Do you have any examples of this happening? She, of course, shares one. She's got one right away. And I checked, well, the headline does say, woman arrested for having a miscarriage. And I say, Alright, I'm gonna read this one. Now, as I am reading through this one, the article was really burying the lead here. It wanted to give shock value, but then what the actual article said was woman goes in to have medical checkup after having a miscarriage. Doctors not wanting to pump anything weird into her body that might interact negatively with anything, say, hey, are you on any drugs? And she says yes. They say, What kind? They say cra she says crack cocaine. Now all of a sudden this turns into an issue. Because I have met friends who raise crack babies, and it's a blessing that those babies are born at all. They are born with absolute issues. Now then, this could become a complicated thing because cocaine has a tendency to make pregnancies terminate, and in that particular state, where an unborn life still has limited but legal rights and standing, that meant that the woman was now potentially up for a charge of manslaughter, which is accidentally killing someone, more being responsible for their death than aggressively pursuing it as one might charge for murder. And so I said, wait a second. I'm reading this through, ma'am, and uh here's what it actually says: that she wasn't arrested for having a miscarriage. The charges on her arrest sheet were that she was involuntary manslaughter, and that by refusing to turn over the drug dealer because crack cocaine is illegal, she was then also going to be charged with a particular brand of aiding and abetting criminal activity. I said, So this doesn't actually show that she was arrested for having a miscarriage. It was the miscarriage that ended up leading to circumstances leading to her arrest. And not this lady, but the friend, actual the the mutual friend comes back and says, You can't move the goal posts like that, you're being unfair. And this was absolutely stunning to me. Said, I didn't move the goalposts. She took her shot, it missed completely, and I said, This actually doesn't like I can prove to you that this is not what I'm asking for. Some things were actually wrecked that day, and I'm pretty sure one of them was my faith in my in our in my friend right that one to have a reasonable conversation. So, is it moving the goalposts to say no this actually does not satisfy the goalpost I set up to start with? Well, measure that for yourself. I see a lot of people out there these days who are far more interested in winning than in aligning with the truth. Cheers.