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RacismAre there any logical fallacies, or false statements in the systemic racism argument? Are there any good, strong points, and truths? |
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Can quality be inferred by popularity?Recently I have been hearing this claim a lot, especially on movie\show\book reviews, when judging the quality of art. It is popular therefore it must be good , or the invert - It is not popular, therefore it must be bad . Could this argument... |
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I Have 2 Questions.Q1:What is the fallacy called when someone only 1 day short of 18 says “I can drink because there isn’t much difference between an 18 year old and somebody who’s almost 18”? (I remember reading this example in you... |
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The You Don't Understand ArgumentI was talking to someone about a prominent politician and I said that they had some really good things to say but the way they talked was incredibly annoying and made me not want to hear them speak. He claimed I didn't understand why the politician ... |
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False Justification and/or Logical FallacyI have a friend who is using the existence of a double standard to justify behavior. his argument is this: Because black people can use the n word, anyone should be able to use the n word. Or at least, black people can’t complain when other p... |
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Thomas Jefferson's "Self-Evident" ArgumentThomas Jefferson famously stated the following: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of... |
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Innocent by association (kind of)Recently I was watching a player in the television program Survivor arguing that women in the past (centuries ago) have been mistreated, treated unfair and even burned as witches, and concluding that women is the force of life and so a female member... |
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Anthropomorphic FallacyA little background. The Neanderthal Theory of intelligence postulates what Psychiatrists call Aspergers/Schizoid/Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders are just residual Neanderthal traits being expressed in different ways. I often use the Do... |
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Any fallacies here?President Trump gets deplatformed from Twitter. Meme in response: "Just remember, Dictators don't get censored. They do the censoring. |
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Is this another example or an ad?There's a box that looks like an advertisement at the bottom of the Appeal to Extremes page I was referencing. "Eat Meat... Or Don't. Roughly 95% of Americans don’t appear to have an ethical problem with animals being killed for food, yet all... |