@sue_me_please to TechTakesEnglish • 20 days 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-square25arrow-up149arrow-down11
arrow-up148arrow-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.com@sue_me_please to TechTakesEnglish • 20 days agomessage-square25
minus-square@slopjockeylinkEnglish23•19 days ago Scrooge was a fucking pussy and he should have told those ghosts to suck him in hell
minus-square@selfAlinkEnglish18•19 days 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@zbyte64linkEnglish17•19 days 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.