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Appeal to authority is generally not a healthy line of arguing. Only the argument itself should be considered.
by arghwhat 7y ago
Appeal to authority is generally not a healthy line of arguing. Only the argument itself should be considered.
- josefx 7y agoA valid choice if you have the time to make yourself enough of an expert on any argument that gets presented to correctly understand and judge its contents. Most people do not have that time or even the patience to waste it when we have various ways to identify people that should know what they are talking about.
- arghwhat 7y agoIf you do not use the validity of the argument itself, then you will keep ending up in this very same situation. Remember, the original system was caused by "experts" in the area, whose authority far exceeded the person claiming the system incorrect. Using authority as a measure would have lead to continued failure. It is always an error to use authority as proof.
- josefx 7y agoIs that mentioned somewhere? As far as I am aware red light cameras are often abused as money makers and cities have been known to reduce wait times in order to maximize profit over the safety of drivers. So the "experts" in question most likely wouldn't have been engineers, they would have been bean counters.