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Err, you're the one making the logical fallacy. The parent said "There are never any consequences for the individual government employees who break the law" and
by asdfologist 10y ago
Err, you're the one making the logical fallacy. The parent said "There are never any consequences for the individual government employees who break the law" and the counterexamples disprove that. "X never happens" is false if I find examples of X happening, by definition of "never". QED.
- colordrops 10y agoThat's just word play and purposefully misunderstanding the parent's likely meaning. It would make no sense for the meaning to be exacting like a mathematical proposition, in that there are literally NEVER any consequences. When speaking of an entity as large as heterogeneous as the government, you can't make such specific claims, so the obvious meaning was "for the most part" or "in general".