sue_me_please@awful.systems to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 4 months ago"The concern with slavery is the innocence of victim. When that’s removed, it’s no longer controversial. At least it shouldn’t be."news.ycombinator.comexternal-linkmessage-square25fedilinkarrow-up147arrow-down11
arrow-up146arrow-down1external-link"The concern with slavery is the innocence of victim. When that’s removed, it’s no longer controversial. At least it shouldn’t be."news.ycombinator.comsue_me_please@awful.systems to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square25fedilink
minus-squareself@awful.systemslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·4 months agoso as I was reading that I was forming a sneer along the lines of “ghosts transcending both time and death to show me the consequences of my worldview is a classical fallacy, checkmate Dickens” but they just fucking go for it there at the end
minus-squarezbyte64@awful.systemslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·4 months agoAppeals to fiction are a fallacy. Not let me explain why X group is bad based on an extremely contrived hypothetical.
so as I was reading that I was forming a sneer along the lines of “ghosts transcending both time and death to show me the consequences of my worldview is a classical fallacy, checkmate Dickens” but they just fucking go for it there at the end
Appeal to thanatority!
Appeals to fiction are a fallacy. Not let me explain why X group is bad based on an extremely contrived hypothetical.