(March 23, 2012 at 4:31 am)thesummerqueen Wrote: I'm sorry - is there a fallacy out yet called "authority by insult" or something similar?
Being able to load a sentence up with as much negativity as possible in no way makes you intelligent or correct.
Argument from Ridicule? i think that is what it's called. It basically goes:
"You can't possibly be right because noone as funny looking and bad smelling as you could ever be right."
"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything." -Friedrich Nietzsche
"All thinking men are atheists." -Ernest Hemmingway
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." -Voltaire
"All thinking men are atheists." -Ernest Hemmingway
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." -Voltaire