• JickleMithers@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    There’s no difference between randos on the internet, everything is taken with a grain of salt and healthy suspicion. Doesn’t matter which rando it comes from.

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      1 year ago

      Let me put it this way: If a man told me he was a medical doctor and another man also claimed to be a doctor and showed me a medical license written in crayons, which would I be more likely to believe?

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        1 year ago

        Let me put it this way: Straw man arguments won’t work here.

        edit: “A straw man fallacy (sometimes written as strawman) is the informal fallacy of refuting an argument different from the one actually under discussion, while not recognizing or acknowledging the distinction”

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          1 year ago

          It’s not really a strawman when I say providing unsubstantiated evidence as proof is not ethical and will be frowned upon.

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            1 year ago

            one is a licensed profession that is illegal to lie about and heavily prosecuted, the other is random people writing comments/posting videos on the internet. There is a world of difference.