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roachspit ([info]roachspit) wrote in [info]jurisimprudence,
@ 2008-01-15 20:42:00


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 Please excuse me for intruding, but I thought these would make nice additions. In a pointing-out-the-blindingly-obvious kind of way.

The Galileo Fallacy: The fact that everyone disagrees with you does not make you Galileo; just because an idea is unpopular doesn't make it right.

The Gadfly Corollary: The fact that other people are pissed off about what you've just said does not make your statement automatically correct; you may just be an asshole.

Both are paraphrases and originated in this blog post.


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(Anonymous)
2008-01-24 06:44 pm UTC (link)
Also: the fact that other people are pissed off about what you've just said does not mean that they're threatened by your statement. It may well be that they can see, while you can't, that you're an idiot as well as an asshole.

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