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What kind of bizarre argument are you even trying to make? Just say what you want to say in plain English.

betwixthewires 5y ago
Are you joking? My statement is plain as day. Claiming "I've seen such and such" is the textbook definition of the word "anecdote". Using that to justify a position is what we (all) call "anecdotal evidence."
- AtlasBarfed 5y ago
  Here is the ejaculatory fulfillment and affirmation you so deeply desire: You are technically correct! Here is why it is HILARIOUS that you're being all rules lawyer: my basic complaint is that the article and the general attitude of humanity and capitalism toward environmentalism: pussyfooting around whether we are "technically" in a mass extinction when we have "technically" only caused the extinction of X gigantic morally indefensible quantity of species vs some other number that may be slightly less or more while also being morally indefensible. It is plain as day doing a modicum of research that we have caused the unnecessary destruction of trillions? quadrillions? of organisms and likely millions of species. Between habitat destruction, agricultural industrialization, invasive species, climate change, and good old poaching and hunting: humans humans humans. We did it. But your attitude are the reason humanity has fucked up the planet to this degree, and the profit-motive organizations have gotten away with it: obfuscation, FUD, placing impossible burden of proof on the environmentalists, lawyers forming twisted arguments and case law that is "legally correct", paying off politicians to pass laws that make the murder of species "legally correct". You are correct sir! Good job! Way to be CORRECT. And am I any better? I'm a fucking American. My very existence makes me a massive part of the problem. I am massive piece of shit just by continuing to live, breathe, and shit. Well, have your gold star. You have won this argument! But you have lost the war. We all have.
  - betwixthewires 5y ago
    That's all good and well, but I've made no statements, no arguments, no dismissals or anything of the sort about anything you've said here. Whatever attitude you're attributing to me, I've said nothing to demonstrate at all. All I did was ask you if you dismiss peoples anecdotes as anecdotes. So do you?

Are you joking? My statement is plain as day. Claiming "I've seen such and such" is the textbook definition of the word "anecdote". Using that to justify a position is what we (all) call "anecdotal evidence."

AtlasBarfed 5y ago
Here is the ejaculatory fulfillment and affirmation you so deeply desire: You are technically correct! Here is why it is HILARIOUS that you're being all rules lawyer: my basic complaint is that the article and the general attitude of humanity and capitalism toward environmentalism: pussyfooting around whether we are "technically" in a mass extinction when we have "technically" only caused the extinction of X gigantic morally indefensible quantity of species vs some other number that may be slightly less or more while also being morally indefensible. It is plain as day doing a modicum of research that we have caused the unnecessary destruction of trillions? quadrillions? of organisms and likely millions of species. Between habitat destruction, agricultural industrialization, invasive species, climate change, and good old poaching and hunting: humans humans humans. We did it. But your attitude are the reason humanity has fucked up the planet to this degree, and the profit-motive organizations have gotten away with it: obfuscation, FUD, placing impossible burden of proof on the environmentalists, lawyers forming twisted arguments and case law that is "legally correct", paying off politicians to pass laws that make the murder of species "legally correct". You are correct sir! Good job! Way to be CORRECT. And am I any better? I'm a fucking American. My very existence makes me a massive part of the problem. I am massive piece of shit just by continuing to live, breathe, and shit. Well, have your gold star. You have won this argument! But you have lost the war. We all have.
- betwixthewires 5y ago
  That's all good and well, but I've made no statements, no arguments, no dismissals or anything of the sort about anything you've said here. Whatever attitude you're attributing to me, I've said nothing to demonstrate at all. All I did was ask you if you dismiss peoples anecdotes as anecdotes. So do you?