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honksillet | karma 915 | avg karma 2.98 · 2014-02-03 05:00:32+00:00

The truth is somewhere in between

tomByrer | karma 93 | avg karma 1.33 · 2014-02-02 23:37:48

^ logical fallacy https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/middle-ground

zorbo | karma 434 | avg karma 3.29 · 2014-02-03 01:42:48

^ Logical fallacy fallacy http://www.fallacyfiles.org/fallfall.html

The beauty of logical fallacies is that you can use them to discredit anything you want. "Scientists are in agreement".. Appeal to authority! But that's not how logical fallacies work. You still need to provide a logically sound reasoning why the fallacy applies. Which you didn't.

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ucho | karma 203 | avg karma 1.74 · 2014-02-03 04:22:38

He probably thought it is obvious. If it is so hard to estimate economic impact it might as well be over 600M or under 0.

Zarathust | karma 592 | avg karma 2.43 · 2014-02-04 12:11:15

This year, I bought a box of chicken wings for 10$ so I made his argument true