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In "Debt of Honor" and "Executive Orders", America survives this kind of catastrophe essentially okay, although it helps that they have Jack Ryan in charge.

• jmillikin 13y ago
  That argument is known as "Generalization from Fictional Evidence": http://lesswrong.com/lw/k9/the_logical_fallacy_of_generalization_from/ http://lesswrong.com/lw/k9/the_logical_fallacy_of_generaliza...
  • wpietri 13y ago
    Comments like these are also known as jokes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joke http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joke
    • m_mueller 13y ago
      Passive aggressive URLs: My favorite kind of URLs.
      • wpietri 13y ago
        In my defense, the actually aggressive page was not as useful: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duh http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duh
  • cwal37 13y ago
    I don't think that person was being entirely serious, particularly given the last few words.