>And I'd call them imbeciles, why you think that "the people like that exist" is argument for anything ? I agree, I don't understand these sorts of arguments.

>And I'd call them imbeciles, why you think that "the people like that exist" is argument for anything ? I agree, I don't understand these sorts of arguments. While I suppose deference to anecdotal evidence has always been around it seems more and more prolific as of late, and more often than is used as justification for a baseless argument simply because others argue baselessly.