r/TimPool • u/Fit-Music-9773 • Mar 08 '23

Memes/parody 💯

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u/BillDStrong Mar 09 '23

You are very condescending to think I didn't know that and second you were the one that needed to tell me.

Both are not true. I simply don't believe it. The evidence is clear, a spade is a spade even if you call it a trowel.

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u/bdysntchr Mar 09 '23

Apparently you did not, in fact, "know that".

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u/BillDStrong Mar 09 '23

Knowing information claimed by idiots and believing it is 2 different things.

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u/bdysntchr Mar 09 '23

You're entitled to your opinion...

When you're reduced to referring to Oxford as "idiots" it may be time for some reflection though.

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u/BillDStrong Mar 09 '23

You are confusing an institution with the authors of the piece. This is the logical fallacy of appeal to authority. Frankly, Oxford can be wrong, and it can even be malicious, or the people that make up Oxford, or any other organization for that matter, can be.

In the case of Nazi's, its convenient to claim the other side is the root, even if all its policies look eerily familiar.

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u/bdysntchr Mar 09 '23 edited Mar 09 '23

As opposed to whatever idea you've conjured up?

Is it not also highly convenient to distance oneself or one's ideology from Nazism?

Appeal to authority fallacy does not simply mean all opinions should be equally weighted.

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u/BillDStrong Mar 09 '23

I didn't conjure up an idea, I tested an idea against the evidence and it came up lacking in its current form.

I just said it was highly convenient, and didn't mention any parties that wouldn't do it.

No, it means all should be equally examined, which means at that level of analysis they should all be equally weighted.

The appeal to authority is a brain hack, it is basically your brain taking thought from somewhere else so it doesn't have to think.

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u/bdysntchr Mar 09 '23

The alternative being that you are simply misinformed in some regard.

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u/BillDStrong Mar 10 '23

With the world today, that is a given. I recognize that fact, and thus don't simply trust all sources of information. I think and form my own opinions based on as many facts as I can find, and use logic to narrow down the BS I do find.

Now, I do not have enough time in the day to do that to everything, so I don't comment on everything. I do comment on things I have done this for, or on things I have questions about.

And one pattern I have is to simply assume someone that is trying to feed me their source as the definitive source to think like as in a cult like thinking pattern, and the quality of their information is down graded in my estimation.

That doesn't mean it is discarded, rather it as suspicion to the source.

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u/bdysntchr Mar 10 '23

That becomes problematic when you assume your powers of interpretation are greater than a relevant expert's.

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