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>It's kind of like saying: "Lawyers? I've dealt with them twice -- and let me tell you, they're all a bunch of lying scumbags who ..." If you deal with two law
by snakeyjake 2y ago
>It's kind of like saying: "Lawyers? I've dealt with them twice -- and let me tell you, they're all a bunch of lying scumbags who ..."
If you deal with two lawyers and on both occasions they lie to you that is a perfectly rational and defensible position to take.
Kinda like being bitten by the same breed of dog twice or opening two bottles of beer from the same brewer on two different occasions and finding them both to be filled with water.
The thing about default positions is that they only represent a beginning.
- ruszki 2y agoTwo data points are statistically insignificant. It’s definitely not rational. As you said, it’s a beginning, but it’s not rational to state blanket statements even then.
- snakeyjake 2y agoI am neither a scientific paper nor the personification of logic. (and you aren't either, despite what you may think) I am a human. I am also not an at-bat in a game of baseball. Two strikes and you're out.
- ruszki 2y agoThat you are human, or not a scientific paper, or not personification of logic, or an at-bat in a game of baseball doesn’t make your original statement with the two lawyers rational as you stated. I don’t care that if you think that “two strikes and you’re out”, it won’t be rational. Especially, that probably your two strikes rule can be applied such way to groups of people that everybody would be “out”. For example if they are white, then all white is out, and also everybody in the whole new world, and the north hemisphere, and everybody who lives on continents, etc. But I’m quite sure that it would be possible to form such groups from which you would be the only who is not out. You can think like that, I don’t care, sometimes I do too, but it still doesn’t make it rational.