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> "America, love it or leave it" was tired even in the 1970s. > If you are ashamed of something, you should be free to fix it, not obliged to leave. Should im
by nonethewiser 3y ago
> "America, love it or leave it" was tired even in the 1970s.
> If you are ashamed of something, you should be free to fix it, not obliged to leave.
Should immigrants not come to America and instead fix their own country? I don’t think that way but that seems to follow from your suggestion.
There are plenty of people embarrassed of America who aren’t trying to fix it or arent affecting any change. Wanting it to be different is neither of these things.
- eesmith 3y ago> I don’t think that way but that seems to follow from your suggestion. You should re-study classical logic. You turned the proposition "If you are ashamed of something, you should not be obliged to leave" into "You have left therefore you must be ashamed of something". This is a fallacy. I wrote "if P then Q or not Q" (if ashamed you are free to stay and you are free to not stay), which you turned into "if not Q then P" ("you did not stay therefore you must be ashamed). Similarly, turning "If you are ashamed of something you should be free to fix it" into "If you are ashamed of something you are obliged to fix it" is another logical fallacy. Just because someone is free to do something does not make them obligated to do it.