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they are also often bullshit deadlines that users dont care about but gets a few brownie points for management.
by quietplatypus 11y ago
they are also often bullshit deadlines that users dont care about but gets a few brownie points for management.
- wolfgke 11y agoNo true Scotsman fallacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
- bybjorn 11y agoTrue, they're still deadlines. But, since they are BS, that might be fixed somehow, no?
- wolfgke 11y agoWhat evidence do you have the the negotiating partner doesn't have good reasons for insisting on the deadlines despite they look BS to you?
- coldtea 11y agoI don't think "no true Scotchman" means what you think it means... It's about criticizing something as invalid, BS, problematic etc. -- is not even about saying something X doesn't belong to an idealized category. It's about shifting the discussion to "X doesn't belong to an idealized category" AFTER you were OK talking generally about it previously. This means that when one talks morally/ideologically/etc. about what constitutes "a true scotchman" (e.g. not in the plain sense of citizen of Scotchman") it's not a fallacy to ascribe certain attributes to the notion (because "true" here essentially means "ideal", "most representative" etc, instead of merely "actually existing").