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“it’s ok because it has always been like this” is both a fallacy and a really bad argument.
by henry2023 2y ago
“it’s ok because it has always been like this” is both a fallacy and a really bad argument.
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- trevoragilbert 2y agoIt's not a fallacy if one of the complaints is "routine practice in American politics." It's directly pointing out that it isn't routine by accident, it's routine by design from the beginning.
- slg 2y ago>It's directly pointing out that it isn't routine by accident, it's routine by design from the beginning. That isn't a defense of the quality of the practice. Something can have a bad "design from the beginning".