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The Worst Argument Ever
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| January 4, 2020
| Rob Jenkins
Posted on 01/04/2021 6:19:39 AM PST by Kaslin
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posted on
01/04/2021 6:19:39 AM PST
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Kaslin
To: Kaslin
Lowering the speed limit to 25 MPH would save many lives.
To: ActresponsiblyinVA
So would banning unprotected sex among gays.....that would cause a supernova
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posted on
01/04/2021 6:31:26 AM PST
by
Archie Bunker on steroids
(You may not take an interest in politics, but politics takes an interest in you "Pericles" )
To: ActresponsiblyinVA
Lowering the speed limit to 25 MPH would save many lives. WE should not stop there.
Ban cars.
Ban bicycles.
Ban walking.
Lives are lost doing all those activities.
The point is, people who say "if it just saves one life" are asserting they, and only they, are capable of determining what risk is allowable.
It is an assertion of dictatorial power.
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posted on
01/04/2021 6:31:56 AM PST
by
marktwain
(President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries. )
To: marktwain
Ladders
Chain saws
Cast iron pans
Kitchen knives
Hammers
Nail guns
Machetes
We could ON & ON.......
To: Kaslin
Banning abortion clinics would save millions of lives...
To: ridesthemiles
Exactly.
Life is Risk.
No one gets out alive.
The death rate is the same all over. One per person.
This is just political rhetoric designed to control us.
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posted on
01/04/2021 6:44:00 AM PST
by
marktwain
(President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries. )
To: marktwain
The death rate is the same all over. One per person. Actually, the average is just over 1 per person.
Lazarus and a few others, I believe, were raised from the dead, so they got to die twice.
:)
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posted on
01/04/2021 6:46:42 AM PST
by
ShadowAce
(Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack )
To: Kaslin
well formed criteria for a goal considers ratio of benefits to costs, ratio of benefits to risk, and ratio of benefits to harms
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posted on
01/04/2021 6:51:46 AM PST
by
mjp
((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
To: marktwain
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posted on
01/04/2021 6:53:21 AM PST
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Kaslin
I disagree. They worst argument ever is “we have to do something”.
To: Kaslin
“As a professional rhetorician and teacher of rhetoric...”
Stopped reading right there.
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posted on
01/04/2021 7:10:30 AM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
To: Kaslin
There are 70 people in a bus driving down a two lane road covered in ice, the mountains on one side and a cliff with a 300 foot drop on the other.
A lone man suddenly appears in the path of the bus and you are the driver.
What do you do?
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posted on
01/04/2021 7:16:06 AM PST
by
Vendome
(I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
To: marktwain
No one gets out alive. Exactly! So, why not enjoy life doing things, legally and responsibly, with [quite] a few mischievous, and sometimes illegal, deeds thrown in!
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posted on
01/04/2021 7:29:11 AM PST
by
Road Warrior ‘04
(BOYCOTT The NFL, MLB, NBA, NASCAR & Faux Snooze! Molon Labe! Oathkeeper!)
To: Vendome
That sounds like a stretch of I40 in TN
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posted on
01/04/2021 7:30:58 AM PST
by
Kaslin
(Joe Biden will never be my President, and neither will Kamala Harris)
To: ActresponsiblyinVA
Common sense would be for you to lower the speed limit in a situation like this.
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posted on
01/04/2021 7:33:31 AM PST
by
Kaslin
(Joe Biden will never be my President, and neither will Kamala Harris)
To: Kaslin
All you need to do is talk to a person who lives in a country were ‘socialized’ medicine is the ONLY medicine.
If that doesn’t change your mind (or at least, open your mind a little)... you’re already dead
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posted on
01/04/2021 7:37:56 AM PST
by
SMARTY
(“If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law.” Winston Churchill)
To: ActresponsiblyinVA
Common sense for YOU would be to lower your speed limit and watch the driver in front of you and behind you.
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posted on
01/04/2021 7:39:52 AM PST
by
Kaslin
(Joe Biden will never be my President, and neither will Kamala Harris)
To: FreedomNotSafety
I disagree. They worst argument ever is “we have to do something”.Definitely a contender.
To: Kaslin
Does he mean...arguwoment?
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