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Mavhunter
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| Terri wrote: | | Otogi-san wrote: | | robert goulet wrote: | | and to that, i say, what about poland? |
My great great grandparents were from there. Needless to say, they didn't like it much. I bet they had ponies though. |
Why would anybody come here if they had a pony? Who leaves a country packed with ponies to come to a non-pony country? |
Come to the Virginia Peninsula. The bit not attached to Virginia. 
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Terri
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| Mavhunter wrote: | | Terri wrote: | | Otogi-san wrote: | | robert goulet wrote: | | and to that, i say, what about poland? |
My great great grandparents were from there. Needless to say, they didn't like it much. I bet they had ponies though. |
Why would anybody come here if they had a pony? Who leaves a country packed with ponies to come to a non-pony country? |
Come to the Virginia Peninsula. The bit not attached to Virginia. |
Huh? Oh, that... that was a Seinfeld reference.
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ZealousDemon
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| Its_The_Sneak!!! wrote: | | Zealous, it's common for one to want to believe the country they have a good life in is the best country there is. |
| http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/appeal-to-popularity.html wrote: | Description of Appeal to Popularity
The Appeal to Popularity has the following form:
1. Most people approve of X (have favorable emotions towards X).
2. Therefore X is true.
The basic idea is that a claim is accepted as being true simply because most people are favorably inclined towards the claim. More formally, the fact that most people have favorable emotions associated with the claim is substituted in place of actual evidence for the claim. A person falls prey to this fallacy if he accepts a claim as being true simply because most other people approve of the claim.
It is clearly fallacious to accept the approval of the majority as evidence for a claim. For example, suppose that a skilled speaker managed to get most people to absolutely love the claim that 1+1=3. It would still not be rational to accept this claim simply because most people approved of it. After all, mere approval is no substitute for a mathematical proof. At one time people approved of claims such as "the world is flat", "humans cannot survive at speeds greater than 25 miles per hour", "the sun revolves around the earth" but all these claims turned out to be false.
This sort of "reasoning" is quite common and can be quite an effective persusasive device. Since most humans tend to conform with the views of the majority, convincing a person that the majority approves of a claim is often an effective way to get him to accept it. Advertisers often use this tactic when they attempt to sell products by claiming that everyone uses and loves their products. In such cases they hope that people will accept the (purported) approval of others as a good reason to buy the product. |
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Hooooomsar
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lol fallacious. MORE LIKE FELATIO AMIRITE?
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RockmanWilliam
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I like felatio.
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Mushroom Pie
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| Mavhunter wrote: | | Mushroom Pie wrote: | | You'd think, I don't know, Antarctica would be a bit higher on the list of worst places to live. |
But there's no one to oppress/kill you there. |
But it's got a crap education system, a birth rate of ZERO, and its economy is the dumps.
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Mavhunter
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| Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 4:58 pm Post subject: |
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| Terri wrote: | | Mavhunter wrote: | | Terri wrote: | | Otogi-san wrote: | | robert goulet wrote: | | and to that, i say, what about poland? |
My great great grandparents were from there. Needless to say, they didn't like it much. I bet they had ponies though. |
Why would anybody come here if they had a pony? Who leaves a country packed with ponies to come to a non-pony country? |
Come to the Virginia Peninsula. The bit not attached to Virginia. |
Huh? Oh, that... that was a Seinfeld reference.
Nevermind |
*hand over my head*
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