@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 10 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.commessage-square25fedilinkarrow-up148
arrow-up148external-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.com@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 10 months agomessage-square25fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish23•10 months ago Scrooge was a fucking pussy and he should have told those ghosts to suck him in hell
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish18•10 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-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish17•10 months agoAppeals to fiction are a fallacy. Not let me explain why X group is bad based on an extremely contrived hypothetical.
Scrooge was a fucking pussy and he should have told those ghosts to suck him in hell
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.