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To: Lucky Dog
You are very good with the application of logic.

This is a gem...

Using your line of reasoning, you would see nothing wrong with an individual playing “Russian roulette” if it gave the individual pleasure. Beyond the questionable mental health issue of this practice, if these individuals were playing with some else’s head next to their own would you still see no problem?

A great analogy for the social psychosis generated by Pavlovian behavioral conditioning in popular culture (although argument from analogy is informal fallacy, but often applied logically for those whom logic fails).

95 posted on 05/31/2006 7:11:52 PM PDT by Sir Francis Dashwood (LET'S ROLL!)
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To: Sir Francis Dashwood
You are very good with the application of logic.

Thank you

...analogy is informal fallacy...

Guilty... however, it was used as an illustrative rhetorical device... An acceptable departure from pure logic in a debate forum.
96 posted on 05/31/2006 7:20:38 PM PDT by Lucky Dog
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