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To: Big Bronson
"who then go on to compare Gold-standard lovers to Socialists"

It is has become a common misconception to think that any two things that are encountered in the same sentence are being compared. However, unfortunate and common this misconception is, it is still a mistake.

Reread the post. It did not NOT offer any comparisons between gold-bugs and socialists (and could not: I am not interested in the topic). It compared instead two arguments that are of the same form. These arguments could'be been about Mars and Venus.

Hysteria in various forms appears to have displaced logic. Having become irate with my post, you did not even bother to see first what made you irate. So much for your detection of fallacies.

57 posted on 03/15/2011 5:11:10 PM PDT by TopQuark
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To: TopQuark
t is has become a common misconception to think that any two things that are encountered in the same sentence are being compared.

You're the one who drew the comparison. You said: Gold-standard lovers do with gold fiat money what socialists do with capitalism.

You were not making an argument about Mars and Venus (which would actually be a logical apples to apples comparison), but rather you played a smarmy little sophistry in choosing, of all things, the arguments of socialists to compare to the arguments of those who buy gold.

You could have chosen, say, the arguments which are put forth by Originalists. But no, you took the low road; that of sophistry - with a heaping side order of ad hominem.

Hysteria in various forms appears to have displaced logic.

I'll say. My fallacy detector appears to be working just fine.

75 posted on 03/16/2011 6:08:01 PM PDT by Big Bronson
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