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Originally posted by notcasesensitive
Flaws in your examples shouldn't be pointed out. Counterexamples carry no weight. You are a big Bush fan, huh?
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So if I say to you that it is generally not in one's personal health interest to shoot bullet into your brain, and someone gives me an example of person that shot a 22 bullet into their brain, survived, and because of the bullet they found a tumour that they would not have discovered otherwise, that would have killed that person in a couple of weeks, and they were saved because of it. Does that example disprove my assertion, does it make my assertion less persuasive? Or should we take all the examples of people who were shot in the head and see what percentage of the people were better off because of the bullet, and then judge my assertion on those statistics?
What do you think?
