Do we expect too much from human reason?

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yes ... true. We need to be very careful too. but I am right. If you "stereotype" the stock market like we can people you would by and sell bill gates for pleasure. it's not right or wrong ... Just the way it is.

but thats off topic.

Thoughtage here is engaged in doing exactly the same thing, about atheists. Arguing he's being fallacious while practicing his fallacy yourself is not adding to the conversation, or your luster.

Sloppy thinking is sloppy thinking. But if you're comfortable with it, what can anyone else say?

the only thing that is being "sloppy" is you. You are assigning a value on the word based on your emotional debris. There are a limited number of personality types. Marketing and advertizing companies "stereotype" to hit a target audience. So your sloppiness is thinking that "stereotype[ping" is only bad. That half is thinking.

You don't have to like the word. that is not a requirement. But its meaning is valid. And the fact remains: Stereo typical old people are not found in dance clubs down south street raving at 1am sat.