RE: 14 y/o Muslim student arrested for bringing "bomb" to school[It was a Cl...
September 17, 2015 at 1:45 pm
(September 17, 2015 at 11:13 am)Clueless Morgan Wrote:(September 17, 2015 at 10:46 am)vorlon13 Wrote: Would the arbiters of all the debate and logic rules insist in this example the school teacher and the TSA agent be the same person ?
My point in sharing this wasn't to make a one-to-one comparison of the situations but to share an interesting anecdote I saw on my facebook page (the first post I saw about Ahmed was literally immediately prior to this post in my news feed), but if you're trying to look at the one as an analogy for the other I would say that the teacher and the TSA agent would be playing similar roles and that yes it would be a not-great analogy.
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it's not ruled out the English teacher would report everyone, and the TSA guy might fail to notice everything so there is a problem with the example, what is the 'official' term for that infraction ?
If I had to stamp this with a fallacy, I'd probably call the comparison of the teacher to the TSA agent something of a strawman.
Appreciate that. I knew something was wrong there.
The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.
