You think it makes more sense to make people speak in e-prime or whatever?
I disagree completely.
yes there is such thing as the fallacy fallacy. But I’m not guilty of it.
I’m not talking about whether something is wrong or right, true or false,
and I made that clear. I’m talking about firstly
whether there’s a fallacy in the logic, embedded assumptions, etc.
that’s not everything, but it’s something we can actually DO.
Sometimes people who smoke don’t die of lung cancer.
And sometimes statements riddled with fallacies are at rock bottom true.
Seems like a dumb reason to keep fallacy and cigarettes around.
I think you are guilty of the nirvana fallacy, which discounts an idea because it falls short of perfection.
I’m not suggesting this will make us perfect, but it will elevate us beyond apes.
Apes make all sorts of noises over and over, repeat the same mistakes and hurl shit.
Imagine a world where we all know how to live in the gray areas a little better.
We will always be human, always flawed, partly because meaning itself is a flawed concept
and yet we all need meaning like oxygen, and meaning requires a little fallacy now and again,
a little black and white, a little boundary-making, letting the power of words run rampant
so that we can believe in something, anything.
BUT, i’m talking about starting small, trixie. Plenty of low hanging fruit out there.
I’d like to hear, JUST ONCE, an expert come in and outline some previously held debate,
and break it down into the composite fallacies. I’d especially love to see this applied to
the most dangerous stuff, the pundits, the rabid, the angry. the bigots disguised as voices of reason.
and nationalists, loyalists, the left or right. Israel or islam. i’m anti-fallacy.