(June 5, 2015 at 5:41 pm)Dystopia Wrote: Who cares about what the majority thinks? The majority of people in the world:
- Believe in god
- Don't want to pay taxes
- At some point supported slavery and other hideous oppressive systems
- Have little knowledge to actually understand clearly society's power dynamics
So why should I take your argument as something more than an argumentum ad populum?
The fallacy name you are looking for is argumentum ad populum.
We can see very clearly that his "reasoning" leaves much to be desired.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
