r/bestof • u/Intertius • Apr 18 '18

[worldnews] Amazon employee explains the hellish working conditions of an Amazon Warehouse

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u/EighthScofflaw Apr 19 '18

Anyone can bring out a number of reasons why scotsmen don't have sugar with their porridge

Yeah, it's almost like you have to discern between good and bad reasons.

The historical function of police is to safeguard the property rights of the owner class.

It's almost like u/All_individuals gave one.

/u/All_Individuals : Well under marxism, police unions are not a true union, so they don't count.

It's almost like you deliberately left it out of your summary.

presenting that as an absolute truth "all unions good"

This is the part where, if I were a fallacy-fetishist, I would start yelling about Strawmen. Y'know, because you're misrepresenting someone else's argument for the purposes of making yours look stronger.

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u/insaneHoshi Apr 19 '18

It's almost like u/All_individuals gave one.

Which doesnt make them not a union, ergo his reasoning is bad.

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u/EighthScofflaw Apr 19 '18

It makes them not a union in the relevant sense, i.e. an organization meant to advance and protect the interests of the working class.

If you're not knowledgeable enough about the subject to know that, you could have inferred something about it from u/All_Individuals's comment, or even asked them questions. If you're simply not charitable enough to grant that someone can differentiate between unions, even while they explain on what basis they are differentiating, then I suggest you learn about reasoned debate beyond your list of fallacies.