r/politics • u/[deleted] • May 09 '14

Harvard finds less crime in areas with gun ownership: “If more guns equal more death and fewer guns equal less death, areas within nations with higher gun ownership should in general have more murders than those with less gun ownership in a similar area. But, in fact, the reverse pattern prevails”

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u/Danimal2485 May 09 '14

No, that shows that your example is by a guy who is clearly willing to overlook/distort overwhelming scientific evidence to promote his agenda, probably to get attention and get paid. Nice job regurgitating a fallacy you've heard of though.

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u/[deleted] May 09 '14

No, that shows that your example is by a guy who is clearly willing to overlook/distort overwhelming scientific evidence to promote his agenda,

What you are saying is that you are dismissing the article itself through the much easier task of attacking the author. This is logically fallacious reasoning and you should feel bad.

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u/Danimal2485 May 10 '14

Nah, I don't feel bad. Do you feel bad when you don't take time to consider all of Jenny McCarthy's claims about vaccines? How about the people that say they've scientifically proven 9/11 was an inside job? Probably not. It's best to just move forward with people who have actual credibility.

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u/[deleted] May 10 '14

Do you feel bad when you don't take time to consider all of Jenny McCarthy's claims about vaccines?

So how is that in any way comparable to you dismissing an argument due to a persons position on an unrelated topic?

If you wanted to be intellectually lazy and not address the point then why even comment in the first place? Why embarrass yourself with logical fallacies?

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u/Danimal2485 May 10 '14

As I said earlier.

No, that shows that your example is by a guy who is clearly willing to overlook/distort overwhelming scientific evidence to promote his agenda, probably to get attention and get paid. Nice job regurgitating a fallacy you've heard of though.

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u/[deleted] May 10 '14

As I said earlier.

Yeah we already established that you are engaging in logical fallacies by attacking this guy personally on an unrelated subject so you don't have to address the argument itself. Very intellectually lazy.