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This should be a new logical fallacy: appeal to current year. Every time I hear someone say "it's $CURRENT_YEAR, we obviously need to implement $PARTISAN_POLICY

This should be a new logical fallacy: appeal to current year. Every time I hear someone say "it's $CURRENT_YEAR, we obviously need to implement $PARTISAN_POLICY" I wonder about what fringe politics will be "obviously correct" in 3022.

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AnimalMuppet 5y ago
Seconded. It's a logical fallacy because they are using the year as proof that we should adopt their policy. Except the year only proves what year it is - nothing else.
- billywhizz 5y ago
  oh boy. is nobody allowed to make a little joke anymore. you should take yourself a lot less seriously my dude.
  - AnimalMuppet 5y ago
    First: I am not "my dude" to you. And, completely apart from the database, it's a really valid point - not a joke at all. When someone says, "It's 2022. Why are we still arguing about X?" or some such, it means that they haven't been able to persuade the rest of the world about X on the merits of their argument, and so they want to short-circuit the argument by appearing "modern" or "up to date" or "on the right side of history". They want to win by persuading the other side to give up in embarrassment, not by virtue of the quality of their position. (In their own eyes, their position is probably self-evidently the only right and moral one, but that doesn't tell us much.) It's a way of trying to win by default, and it deserves nothing other than being regarded as "you lose by default".
    - billywhizz 5y ago
      - hu3 5y ago
        not everything is a joke. and some jokes are not funny. specially ad hominem criticism.
    - CRConrad 5y ago
      > First: I am not "my dude" to you. Well, calling yourself "AnimalMuppet" you kind of set yourself up for dude-dom.
tedunangst 5y ago
Nothing in this post claims that the year intrinsically makes this the correct choice. It is the database for 2022 because it is now 2022 and this is the database they are now using.

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AnimalMuppet 5y ago

Seconded. It's a logical fallacy because they are using the year as proof that we should adopt their policy. Except the year only proves what year it is - nothing else.

billywhizz 5y ago
oh boy. is nobody allowed to make a little joke anymore. you should take yourself a lot less seriously my dude.
- AnimalMuppet 5y ago
  First: I am not "my dude" to you. And, completely apart from the database, it's a really valid point - not a joke at all. When someone says, "It's 2022. Why are we still arguing about X?" or some such, it means that they haven't been able to persuade the rest of the world about X on the merits of their argument, and so they want to short-circuit the argument by appearing "modern" or "up to date" or "on the right side of history". They want to win by persuading the other side to give up in embarrassment, not by virtue of the quality of their position. (In their own eyes, their position is probably self-evidently the only right and moral one, but that doesn't tell us much.) It's a way of trying to win by default, and it deserves nothing other than being regarded as "you lose by default".
  - billywhizz 5y ago
    - hu3 5y ago
      not everything is a joke. and some jokes are not funny. specially ad hominem criticism.
  - CRConrad 5y ago
    > First: I am not "my dude" to you. Well, calling yourself "AnimalMuppet" you kind of set yourself up for dude-dom.

tedunangst 5y ago

Nothing in this post claims that the year intrinsically makes this the correct choice. It is the database for 2022 because it is now 2022 and this is the database they are now using.