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minus-squaregeneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·1 month ago “Can you prove Iran doesn’t have nukes? Because Israeli intelligence told me they do!”
minus-squaredrolex@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down17·1 month agoI get it but you could apply it to the post itself. “Can you prove Wolf Blitzer isn’t Israel’s mouthpiece? Because somebody on the internet told me so!” I don’t see why asking for sources is mocked.
minus-squarenova_ad_vitum@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·1 month agoBecause when provided with positive evidence of obvious bias, you demanded proof of a negative which is ranges from prohibitively difficult to impossible. This is not a valid form of reasoning. The inability to disprove something is not a valid reason to believe in it. Let me put it another way, I don’t converse with paedophiles so I’m going to need proof that you’ve never diddled kids before we can continue.
minus-squaredrolex@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down15·1 month agoIt was hardly evidence. It was a quip. Let me put it another way, I don’t converse with paedophiles so I’m going to need proof that you’ve never diddled kids before we can continue. Here we go. Amazing and terribly clever.
minus-squareHalosheep@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 month agoDamn, no evidence provided. Pedophile confirmed.
I get it but you could apply it to the post itself.
I don’t see why asking for sources is mocked.
Because when provided with positive evidence of obvious bias, you demanded proof of a negative which is ranges from prohibitively difficult to impossible. This is not a valid form of reasoning. The inability to disprove something is not a valid reason to believe in it.
Let me put it another way, I don’t converse with paedophiles so I’m going to need proof that you’ve never diddled kids before we can continue.
It was hardly evidence. It was a quip.
Here we go. Amazing and terribly clever.
Damn, no evidence provided.
Pedophile confirmed.