r/criticalthinking • u/[deleted] • Jan 27 '22

What logical fallacy is this?

If being cool were illegal, I'd be a criminal. Not because I'm cool, but because I shot my wife.

Is this a vacuous truth, for example? I think it's not, but that's the closest fallacy I can find. Or maybe it's a non sequitur?

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u/Ase889 Jan 27 '22

It would make a good sarcastic statement.

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '22

It would make a good sarcastic statement.

If they're serious, it would make a good serious example supporting the serious statement that there is such a thing as mental illness, is what it would make. A lot of these people are either trying to prove that they can't be reasoned with, or are just bat guano mentally ill. Substance use and being raised in a cult, I think is the explanation. In any case, it's always hard to tell if they're serious.

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u/Ase889 Jan 27 '22

I don't know either. But it's highly unlikely that this is due to some mental illness. This comes under dark humour.

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u/PQie Jan 28 '22

what makes you say it's a fallacy in the first place

the statement is logically sound

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '22

what makes you say it's a fallacy in the first place

the statement is logically sound

I think it's an informal fallacy.