RE: 14 y/o Muslim student arrested for bringing "bomb" to school[It was a Cl...
September 17, 2015 at 5:00 pm
(September 17, 2015 at 10:46 am)vorlon13 Wrote:(September 17, 2015 at 10:06 am)Clueless Morgan Wrote: A high school friend of mine posted this as her comment when she shared the story of Ahmed on facebook:
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 ?
(serious question, I'm trying to do better with all the post ad hocter, substitution fallacy, strawman stuff, and I think this an example of another one, thanx)
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Judging from one instance is unreasonable, and so she needs more than just that. My guess is, though, that she has more life experience and more observations than just what is specified.
Of course, a teacher is not a TSA agent as you say.
Really, though, I do not think the intention of the post was to provide a proof at all, but just to provide an example of differences in treatment. And if that is the case, then there is no fallacious reasoning demonstrated at all.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
