• Taleya@aussie.zone
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    2 days ago

    It’s not elitism. It’s fucking fact. Someone trained in a discipline knows more about said discipline than someone who isn’t

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      2 days ago

      Not to say that you’re wrong, but this is a dangerous argument. There are a FUCKTON of antivax nurses and numerous antivax doctors.

      Yogo moms are a universally bad source, but even ‘credible’ sources suffer the appeal to authority fallacy .

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        1 day ago

        Never said to trust someone blindly. Is this how far we’ve fallen? The mere thought that an expert in their field may in fact be an expert in said field needs to be taken apart?

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            1 day ago

            I literally just pointed out that someone who is trained in a discipline knows more about said subject than someone who is not. This is fact. What they choose to do with said knowledge up to and including falling victim to conspiracy theories is a seperate matter.

            I also said not to trust blindly. These words are written right there to go back to look at whenever you please.

            If you want to spew logical fallacies, look up “straw man” and “false dilemma”

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              1 day ago

              I think I’ll just skip to block user and let you be as salty as you want to be to everyone else.