#neverliberal #nevermarxist
...it's a blatant argument from authority.
That's not what that means.
It most certainly is what it means. If you agree with specific arguments from specific founding fathers at specific times in their lives, perhaps you could just defend the points on their actual merit without trying to name drop famous dead old men. And even if you do not personally fall for this fallacy, your conservative politicians certainly do. Again and again. All the fucking time.
Read the Federalist Papers. If you disagree with anything written there, it's not because THEY were logic-impaired Neanderthals.
Believe it or not, your fundamental argument actually is valid within its own context. If we assume that the term "argument from authority" means something like what you're fuzzily trying to imply that it does, then the people who say "the Constitution only made sense because it was written by people who were born before me" are indeed precisely as stupid as your claim that the Constitution is invalid because it was written by people who were born before you.
So... congratulations, I guess. You successfully argued a straw man to a draw this time.
QuoteRead the Federalist Papers. If you disagree with anything written there, it's not because THEY were logic-impaired Neanderthals.There you go with it again; suggesting that the founding fathers were infallible entities whose word still stands without modification after centuries of the most significant societal advancements in human history.
There you go with it again; suggesting that the founding fathers were infallible entities whose word still stands without modification after centuries of the most significant societal advancements in human history.Didn't make it past the FIRST WORD in that sentence did you?
Yes. It was "if you disagree with them you are logic impaired". Do you think Jefferson, who disagreed with plenty of the federalist papers, was logic impaired? Oh, wait, did I spoil for you that the founders bickered and fought even moreso than modern politicians?
You don't even know why the Federalist papers were drawn up, do you?
QuoteRead the Federalist Papers. If you disagree with anything written there, it's not because THEY were logic-impaired Neanderthals.QuoteThere you go with it again; suggesting that the founding fathers were infallible entities whose word still stands without modification after centuries of the most significant societal advancements in human history.QuoteDidn't make it past the FIRST WORD in that sentence did you?Yes. It was "if you disagree with them you are logic impaired".
There you go with it again; suggesting that the founding fathers were infallible entities whose word still stands without modification after centuries of the most significant societal advancements in human history.
Didn't make it past the FIRST WORD in that sentence did you?
So, among a great many other things, you don't know how to count. At all. Or, evidently, even grasp the fundamental concept thereof.
People give liberal Internet trolls way too much credit. They keep accusing you guys of having "poor reading comprehension." But the sad fact is, that's the only kind of comprehension you DO have.
You asked me if I had read past the first word.