Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
Ayn Rand
Just another point to prove the antisemitism! This Rabbi is innocent! Only Hitler Lovers would convict him [note sarcasm]!
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Anonymous
said...
Here we have a case of showing an absurd case, (a 'reductio' argument).
If someone claims this is anti-Jewish, then it's absurd, because we all agree that pedophilia is immoral.
But citing one example is not statistically significant.
Is anyone seriously claiming that this is a case of anti-Jewish sentiment?
If not, then citing this one example is both statistically insignificant *and* a straw man argument.
Example: "Hey, this murderer is a political Conservative! Therefore, this is a typical example of who Conservatives are."
That would be fallacious, because it is statistically insignificant, even if a small number of persons actually asserted the claim.
Secondly, if the example is quoted sarcastically, then it's both statistically insignificant and a straw man argument (a false example of your opponents reasoning).
1 comment:
Here we have a case of showing an absurd case, (a 'reductio' argument).
If someone claims this is anti-Jewish, then it's absurd, because we all agree that pedophilia is immoral.
But citing one example is not statistically significant.
Is anyone seriously claiming that this is a case of anti-Jewish sentiment?
If not, then citing this one example is both statistically insignificant *and* a straw man argument.
Example: "Hey, this murderer is a political Conservative! Therefore, this is a typical example of who Conservatives are."
That would be fallacious, because it is statistically insignificant, even if a small number of persons actually asserted the claim.
Secondly, if the example is quoted sarcastically, then it's both statistically insignificant and a straw man argument (a false example of your opponents reasoning).
Respectfully submitted,
- Poster
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