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> Your memo was a great example of what’s called “motivated reasoning” Guess he'll have to join the throngs of people fired for motivated reasoning to arrive a
by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
> Your memo was a great example of what’s called “motivated reasoning”
Guess he'll have to join the throngs of people fired for motivated reasoning to arrive at 'diversity is strength' and 'everyone is equal'.
- CobrastanJorji 9y agoI see you are interested in logical fallacies. You may also be interested in the one called "tu quoque."
- maehwasu 9y agoBy that logic, you are never allowed to notice the unbalanced application of a rule or principle. Slightly off-topic, most "logical fallacies" actually have very important heuristic uses. Just to get the ball rolling, "ad hominem" becomes extremely useful in a world in which we have limited access to full information, and have to constantly evaluate the reliability of outside parties.
- Chris2048 9y agoThat only counts for logical arguments. There is an assumption that if a reason is given for firing someone, anyone should be fired under the same circumstances on basis of fair treatment.
- why128319 9y agoA pure "tu quoque" fallacy like the contrived example here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque rarely happens. Step three is really missing most of the time. Calling out hypocrisy has the purpose of questioning self-righteousness. It is used to puncture the reality distortion field that some smug people use to "win" discussions. Since not everyone is a Vulcan, calling out hypocrisy has a legitimate purpose.
- maehwasu 9y agoNot sure why you're getting downvoted. Those two statements are not obviously true in any sense other than "they sound good and only BAD people dispute them."