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**SweetCaroline** · 07-05-2010, 11:46 PM

Well.... You pretty much made your point!! (Guess nobody had anything better to add) [yes]

(Including me!) [rofl]

Or people had better things to do than argue. If anything, he supported my point about irrational risk assessment.

His "argument" was akin to listing the names of every murder victim in an argument for total surveillance. It's an appeal to emotion, and a strawman, utterly irrelevant to the point, and absolutely useless to argue against.

07-05-2010, 11:46 PM	#72
SweetCaroline Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 450 Senior Member	Well.... You pretty much made your point!! (Guess nobody had anything better to add) [yes] (Including me!) [rofl] Or people had better things to do than argue. If anything, he supported my point about irrational risk assessment. His "argument" was akin to listing the names of every murder victim in an argument for total surveillance. It's an appeal to emotion, and a strawman, utterly irrelevant to the point, and absolutely useless to argue against.
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