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This is a no true Scotsman statement. Questioning authority is okay as long as it’s just questioning, but any question can be dismissed as pathological question
by tinus_hn 5y ago
This is a no true Scotsman statement. Questioning authority is okay as long as it’s just questioning, but any question can be dismissed as pathological questioning and forbidden.
If you want to use some qualification of ‘pathologically questioning’ you’ll have to define what it is. So it’s clear what kind of questions you want forbidden.
- SideburnsOfDoom 5y agoThis is a no true "no true Scotsman" statement: yet there are Scotsmen; there are still always excess of anything; despite the caveat that this can be abused as "any question can be dismissed as pathological". Do not overthink it into pretzel-logic. My other comment outlines the situation that I think clearly qualifies.
- tinus_hn 5y agoSo your argument is that the no true Scotsman fallacy is not a fallacy because Scotsmen do in fact exist? It would be nice to state in advance that you have abandoned logic and that any discussion with you is pointless.
- SideburnsOfDoom 5y agoIt's that claiming everything is a fallacy is a pointless distraction. it's not _always_ a falacy. As I said, "Anything taken to excess is a flaw" - there is always a limit somewhere. That does not in itself make everything "no true scotsman!"