I was discussing the logical fallacy of False Attribution with one of my students, and we both found ourselves trespassing onto unhallowed ground. We concluded that a knowledge of the fallacy could be used for evil, as well as good... and we both admitted to sometimes faking a knowledge of factual sources in order to win an argument. Reprehensible I know, but one can't deny that faking can sometimes be fun.Technorati Tagged - Fallacy, Skepticism, False Attribution.
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Or in my wife's case, necessary :(
Redheads have tempers because they are genetically inferior dur a recess gene that causes loss of pigment and lack of physical robustness. They are less attractive to females and is that sense of injustice, whether conciously acknowledged or not, that tends to fester over the course of an induvidual's life. Sexual envy as a motivation is rarely discussed but it's a powerful, disfunctional force in human affairs.
It's no accident that most revolutionaries are physically ugly.
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