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[–] slopjockey@awful.systems 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Scrooge was a fucking pussy and he should have told those ghosts to suck him in hell

[–] self@awful.systems 18 points 2 months ago (2 children)

so as I was reading that I was forming a sneer along the lines of “ghosts transcending both time and death to show me the consequences of my worldview is a classical fallacy, checkmate Dickens” but they just fucking go for it there at the end

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 19 points 2 months ago

Appeal to thanatority!

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 17 points 2 months ago

Appeals to fiction are a fallacy. Not let me explain why X group is bad based on an extremely contrived hypothetical.