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Celestial teapot is a defense against people making claims without providing sufficient evidence to support it. By invoking the celestial teapot, I am not taki
by alexashka 6y ago
Celestial teapot is a defense against people making claims without providing sufficient evidence to support it.
By invoking the celestial teapot, I am not taking the opposite position of the one being made, I am taking the position of a rationalist who only accepts claims when sufficient evidence is presented.
Let me illustrate with an example:
A: Elephants are pink.
B: What makes you say they're pink?
A: How can you claim elephants are not pink?!
B: Huh? See celestial teapot (I never said they are not pink)
A: If you're going to use the celestial teapot as a defense for elephants not being pink...
B: ...
- tommica 6y ago> What makes you think they want to be a 'productive member of society'? The same answer as you would have to the question "what makes you want to be a 'productive member of a society'?"
- klyrs 6y agoOnly you're claiming that past criminals don't want to be productive members of society on a thread wherein multiple people with criminal pasts are demonstrably productive members of society, damn the hurdles they faced from society in achieving that. This isn't a teapot situation, this is you ignoring the evidence at hand and whinging about the color of elephants.
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- Igelau 6y agoIt also needs to learn to parse other threads for facts and reply with more than just a keyword definition. This is ELIZA-level bot programming.