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Yeah, if we defund the police and I get burgled who am I supposed to call when I want someone to show up eight hours later, shoot my dog, and tell me there’s no
by tehwebguy 3y ago
Yeah, if we defund the police and I get burgled who am I supposed to call when I want someone to show up eight hours later, shoot my dog, and tell me there’s nothing they can do to help?
(Apologies for not just linking to the evergreen tweet, couldn’t find it)
- willcipriano 3y agoLet me guess, they live in a major city led mostly by people who love NPR?
- Eisenstein 3y agoI'd love to see you try and use valid rhetoric to make a point.
- willcipriano 3y agoI'll let one of you go first.
- Eisenstein 3y agoYou have used logical fallacies such as an 'all or nothing' (if adding more money doesn't make it better, then removing all the money can't make it worse -- as if there is there is nothing in the middle) which sound persuasive but crumble when pointed out. What you used just previous to my above post, about cities with people run by people who like NPR, is "cum hoc ergo propter hoc" which basically means 'because something exists with something else they must cause each other'. In other words 'because a city is run by a political party, that is the reason that cities have the problem X'. There may be a causation, but you haven't produced any persuasive elements to have anyone make that conclusion. Insinuation is not an argument. When using fallacies as your rhetorical devices people will call you on it, and the response is not 'no you first', because you are being tasked with actually making the point you were trying to make but without using invalid strategies. Unless of course you are not able to, in which case 'no you first' is simply a concession.