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Unread 05-21-2006, 11:38 AM   #14 (permalink)
DJ FC
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But alas the joke is on you.

If someone makes an absolute claim, you only need a single piece of evidence to refute it.

If someone makes claims (such as this website does) about nearly all instances of an issue, you only need to appeal to authority or take a sample. What I am saying is this: This website makes absurd claims which are somehow supposed to apply to most (if not all) marriages, including (for example) such arguments about how American women are universally terrible and foreign women are the Promised Land. While this is funny, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize that while some marriages are bad, and some American women are bad, not all of them are bad. This website makes the egregious error of generalizing a rather complex issue with a few examples.


Thus, the claims found on this website are almost all untrue; and we find evidence of this by looking at the tremendous number of healthy and happy marriages. The claims are untrue because they are too broad.

And once again, we find ourselves arguing the wrong point of a topic. The argument shouldn’t be “All marriage is bad,” because this is refuted instantly. Perhaps a better argument would be “You shouldn’t get married so soon.”

Last edited by DJ FC; 05-21-2006 at 11:39 AM.
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