(April 12, 2014 at 3:51 pm)alpha male Wrote:(April 12, 2014 at 3:38 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: I think the worst and sadly one of the most overused arguments ever are arguments from personal experience. Too often I'll be trying to make a point, either on these forums or in real life and someone will say "Well when I....(got pregnant, was sent to jail, was depressed, whatever.)Interestingly, your second sentence is about your personal experience with arguments from personal experience.
Whatever excuse(s) you make for this, maybe you should give others the same benefit of the doubt.
There is nothing wrong with talking about your personal experience per se, but to use it as though it negates data about large groups of people is what I'm talking about. I think you are just trying (and failing as usual) to be clever.
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