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I downvoted you because your comment was gimmicky and needlessly antagonistic while not making a substantive point. Do you think Burning Man attendees don't li
by Tossrock 10y ago
I downvoted you because your comment was gimmicky and needlessly antagonistic while not making a substantive point. Do you think Burning Man attendees don't live in the real world? Do you think you've achieved that much more than Eric Schmidt or Elon Musk (notable attendees) that you can talk down to them?
- oh_sigh 10y agoElon Musk and Eric Schmidt are also notable attendees in Real Life.
- ianamartin 10y agoThat's fine. You're totally allowed to downvote me. But pulling celebrity names out of a hat is not an argument. It's actually a fallacy. It's called appeal to authority. You should check it out, but I doubt you will. I'm upvoting you for honesty. You're not right, but you're honest about it. I approve.
- zazen 10y agoYou chose to reply only to the final, weakest part of Tossrock's comment. Yes, you're quite right, dropping celebrity names isn't much of an argument. The rest of his comment seemed pretty bang-on to me. I'd be curious to know if you have any reply to "Do you think Burning Man attendees don't live in the real world?" Whoever said "there's no event like Burning man on this planet" was a bit breathless, but going <<durr, try real life instead>> isn't much of a reply. If you want to start listing fallacies, I think what you have there is a false dichotomy.
- true_religion 10y agoCelebrity name dropping isn't appeal to authority when the question is "are there no people who attend that are successful?" Naming successful and wealthy individuals is a good counter, and we reach for naming celebrities because everyone knows them as opposed to naming Joe from accounting at XYZ corp, who has 1.2M in the bank but no one knows.
- Tossrock 10y agoI'm very familiar with appeal to authority, which is not what I've done. Appeal to authority is when you argue "Statement X is true because authority Y said it is". This is not what I said - I listed examples of successful, well regarded people in the "real world" who have attended Burning Man, as a refutation of your (poorly stated) premise that people who attend Burning Man do not also accomplish things in the real world.
- aorloff 10y agoSorry but those are NOT notable attendees. Notable attendees have CREATED something notable that they shared on the playa.