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To: MadameAxe
Your analogy is a non sequitur.

No, it's right on the money.

93 posted on 12/30/2001 1:15:24 PM PST by Roscoe
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To: Roscoe ; MadameAxe
MadameAxe wrote:
We're just "one-percenters", with no ability to have an effect on anything, right?

You replied:
Drunken drivers are probably less than 1% of the motorists on the road.

MadameAxe responded:
Your analogy is a non sequitur.

To which you replied:
No, it's right on the money.

No, that's a perfect example of a fallacy:

Dangerous drunk drivers comprise 1% of the population.
Libertarians are 1% of the population.
Therefore, Libertarians are dangerous.

Roscoe, just because drunk-divers and libertarians may comprise 1% of the population, it does not follow that libertarians and drunk drivers are the same one percent. (As an aside, I believe this is the fallacy of the undistributed middle, not a non-sequitor.)

113 posted on 12/30/2001 1:46:11 PM PST by Liberal Classic
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