I hear the word false dichotomy get used by certain BUGTards, usually the same person using multiple accounts, but what does a false dichotomy really mean? Lets look at the definition and explanation. Shall we? A false dilemma, or false dichotomy, is a logical fallacy which involves presenting two opposing views, options or outcomes in such a way that they seem to be the only possibilities: that is, if one is true, the other must be false, or, more typically, if you do not accept one then the other must be accepted. The reality in most cases is that there are many in-between or other alternative options, not just two mutually exclusive ones. In other words, there are two ways in which one can commit a false dilemma. First, one can assume that there are only two (or three, though in that case it would strictly speaking be a “false trilemma”) options when there really are many more. Second, one can take the options to be mutually exclusive when they really are not. As an example of the first, here is Reed Heustis’s attempt to prove that the Founding Fathers were deeply influenced by John Calvin: By default, when one rejects Calvin’s presupposition, he necessarily adopts that of Karl Marx. Author of the Communist Manifesto, Marx presupposed that Man is inherently good, and that all of Man’s problems are the result of a bad environment. Since the founding fathers were clearly not Marxist, they must have been Calvinists. The rest of us may be inclined to think that, surely, there are more options here. As an example of the second, here is Joel Richardson, in the WND, attempting to criticize Ron Paul’s foreign policies: “According to Paul, radical Muslims are not radical because they have drunk deeply from the trough of an expansionist, racist and murderous ideology, but rather because American actions abroad have brought about the natural response of resistance. But of course, adopting one causal factor does not – despite what Richardson assumes – entail rejecting the other (though of course Richardson’s caricatures are also strawmen). So lets see what arguments sound like false dichotomies from the BUGTards. Diversity is a code word for anti-White There are pro white and there are anti whites Either you are pro white or you are anti white You are either with us, or against us.
Posted on: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 02:10:07 +0000
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