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silent scream "Think of the children" should surely have its own rhetorical-rejection term (although the mental playback of a Simpsons gif, has made me smile).

by goldcd 8y ago

saghm 8y ago
I think the term is actually just "think of the children!" Wikipedia has an article precisely about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_of_the_children https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_of_the_children
- munk-a 8y ago
  And that sort of stupid argument goes all the way back - Socrates ended up drinking the hemlock for a few reasons one of which was "corrupting the young".
- goldcd 8y ago
  I know, but what I should have said is that it needs an accepted fancy-latin-term like "ad hominem" Or at the very least an accepted English equivalent such as "Straw man" Basically I'd like something other than Reverend Lovejoy's wife to appear in a google search.
  - rcfox 8y ago
    "ad liberi"? Not super clear in casual use...
    - schoen 8y ago
      That would need to be an accusative, "ad liberos".
    - dragonwriter 8y ago
      More recognizable in casual use might be “ad infantum", which I think is grammatically correct but I don't Latin much.
      - goldcd 8y ago
        I'd always seen it being wider than "just children" More of a "I'm concerned by the effect of this on minds I consider more feeble than my own (due to some massive superiority complex I'm in possession of)" i.e. My own massive intellect is capable of withstanding this 'thing' - but we should ban it to protect the feeble-minded (and I'm too chicken to call others that, so instead I'll do it by proxy). More serious point is that when a democratic process (Brexit, Trump, Netanyahu, Erdoğan, Putin, whatever) doesn't return what you what - we all retreat to our talk of "the others" (or you could flip the whole think around depending on your personal beliefs). It just detest my/others/everybody's unwillingness to examine the lazy/meaningless terms we all bandy around and start pinning our shitty arguments to. I'm not pro or anti "screen-time" - I just hate the term as it's not anything anybody should have an actual opinion on.

silent scream "Think of the children" should surely have its own rhetorical-rejection term (although the mental playback of a Simpsons gif, has made me smile).

by goldcd 8y ago

silent scream "Think of the children" should surely have its own rhetorical-rejection term (although the mental playback of a Simpsons gif, has made me smile).

saghm 8y ago

I think the term is actually just "think of the children!" Wikipedia has an article precisely about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_of_the_children https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_of_the_children

munk-a 8y ago
And that sort of stupid argument goes all the way back - Socrates ended up drinking the hemlock for a few reasons one of which was "corrupting the young".
goldcd 8y ago
I know, but what I should have said is that it needs an accepted fancy-latin-term like "ad hominem" Or at the very least an accepted English equivalent such as "Straw man" Basically I'd like something other than Reverend Lovejoy's wife to appear in a google search.
- rcfox 8y ago
  "ad liberi"? Not super clear in casual use...
  - schoen 8y ago
    That would need to be an accusative, "ad liberos".
  - dragonwriter 8y ago
    More recognizable in casual use might be “ad infantum", which I think is grammatically correct but I don't Latin much.
    - goldcd 8y ago
      I'd always seen it being wider than "just children" More of a "I'm concerned by the effect of this on minds I consider more feeble than my own (due to some massive superiority complex I'm in possession of)" i.e. My own massive intellect is capable of withstanding this 'thing' - but we should ban it to protect the feeble-minded (and I'm too chicken to call others that, so instead I'll do it by proxy). More serious point is that when a democratic process (Brexit, Trump, Netanyahu, Erdoğan, Putin, whatever) doesn't return what you what - we all retreat to our talk of "the others" (or you could flip the whole think around depending on your personal beliefs). It just detest my/others/everybody's unwillingness to examine the lazy/meaningless terms we all bandy around and start pinning our shitty arguments to. I'm not pro or anti "screen-time" - I just hate the term as it's not anything anybody should have an actual opinion on.