Difference between revisions of "Liberal logic"
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* belief that a correlation (e.g., between atheism and suicide) can be disproved by a poor counterexample (e.g., one atheist who remained sane) | * belief that a correlation (e.g., between atheism and suicide) can be disproved by a poor counterexample (e.g., one atheist who remained sane) | ||
| − | * [[free speech]] for anything and everything ... except | + | * [[free speech]] for anything and everything ... except [[conservative]] views. |
* an [[atheistic]] culture cannot harm anyone, but saying a prayer in class can cause tremendous harm | * an [[atheistic]] culture cannot harm anyone, but saying a prayer in class can cause tremendous harm | ||
* increasing spending by government must reduce poverty (no, dependency increases poverty) | * increasing spending by government must reduce poverty (no, dependency increases poverty) | ||
Revision as of 20:26, February 16, 2008
Liberal logic is an argument that has logical appeal to a liberal, but is nonsensical. Let's build a list:
- belief that a correlation (e.g., between atheism and suicide) can be disproved by a poor counterexample (e.g., one atheist who remained sane)
- free speech for anything and everything ... except conservative views.
- an atheistic culture cannot harm anyone, but saying a prayer in class can cause tremendous harm
- increasing spending by government must reduce poverty (no, dependency increases poverty)
- teaching abstinence-only does not reduce premarital sex
- widespread ownership of guns, largely defensive weapons, must not reduce crime
- that new laws reducing the gun ownership rate by 0.1% and a subsequent election of a left wing government are not linked
- that lack of government programs to rehabilitate criminals must not reduce crime
- that increasing taxes must increase government revenue (no, often people work less)
- that just because a university calls a member of staff a professor, that makes him a professor (no, they could be lying) +
- that providing teenage girls with a vaccine that prevents a sexually transmitted cause of cervical cancer will not lead to promiscuity
(add to list)
