Anecdotal Evidence

[RoadRunner79]

Have you seen a cop? Have you seen a gun? Do you know any laws of biology, chemistry, physics, or psychology that would prevent a cop from shooting an innocent unarmed person?

You don't actually have to see the shooting to know it's possible. But you DO have to be familiar with the existence of the elements involved to know it's possible. The existence of supernatural beings is simply not being held to a different standard than the existence of unjustified police shootings.

If you were an alien unfamiliar with any of the elements of an unjustified police shooting, you would be justified in asking for evidence of the elements involved in such a shooting. I could take you to a shooting range and teach you about guns. I could introduce you to police officers. I could provide copious evidence that humans are fallible and susceptible to bias, corruption, errors of judgment, and panic. And I could provide the footage and details of investigations to close the deal; but that last thing should not at that point be necessary to establish that such a thing is possible, the prior elements establish that.

You're trying to create a false equivalence between being open to accepting reports of something we didn't see personally but know all the elements that would make it possible; and being open to reports of something that hasn't had its possibility established in the first place. We're the aliens in the latter scenario, and it's reasonable to expect you to do the equivalent of taking us to the shooting range and demonstrating human fallibility before we even entertain the possibility that your report might be true and means what you think it does.

If there were an equivocation award here at AF, it would go to RR.

You keep using that word, I do not think it means...what you think it means!