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Your logic is the 'but think of the children!' fallacy. Please re-examine and re-submit.
by lwhalen 10y ago
Your logic is the 'but think of the children!' fallacy. Please re-examine and re-submit.
- mejari 10y agoSimply claiming a fallacy is not a discussion or a rebuttal. Also, there is no "but think of the children" fallacy. You may be thinking of the Emotional Appeal fallacy, but even then it isn't always a fallacy to point out potential dangers to children.
- resfirestar 10y agoIf we were discussing whether pavel_lishin was a good person, would ad hominem be off limits to you? It doesn't make sense to call out a "think of the children" when we're actually discussing dangers to children.
- lwhalen 10y agoAlright, both of you folks are absolutely correct - 'think of the children', in the context of 'is X safe for children?' is an appropriate use of same. Snark retracted :-)
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- sctb 10y agoWe detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13056942 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13056942 and marked it off-topic.