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Caleb James DeLisle (nprofile…mj4q) he's not equating seed oils to suicide, just mocking the argument. There are categories of things that are obviously bad, where crying SOURCE? or STUDY? is just a way of avoiding the subject. The more shocking example makes it more obvious that Taleb's mocking the argument, and not trying to make some other point.
The "equating" objection is usually a fallacious defense, when you'd much rather say
>HOW DARE YOU call me a rapist! I'm not a rapist! You were never raped!
than discuss the morality of whatever you were doing that has the other person saying it's "like rape".
You're not doing that here. I just don't like this complaint. "I think your argument is shit, look how it fails here." is a perfectly reasonable thing to say, and "How dare you equate me to Hitler" meanwhile is nearly as tiresome as Hitler references.
It's still quite funny for him to mock the argument in this way after his mRNA defenses. But then, he did most of his defending in this same manner, of mocking bad arguments. The guy's quite smart but maybe hasn't noticed that you can arrive at any position at all by only attacking people who ineptly disagree with it.
The "equating" objection is usually a fallacious defense, when you'd much rather say
>HOW DARE YOU call me a rapist! I'm not a rapist! You were never raped!
than discuss the morality of whatever you were doing that has the other person saying it's "like rape".
You're not doing that here. I just don't like this complaint. "I think your argument is shit, look how it fails here." is a perfectly reasonable thing to say, and "How dare you equate me to Hitler" meanwhile is nearly as tiresome as Hitler references.
It's still quite funny for him to mock the argument in this way after his mRNA defenses. But then, he did most of his defending in this same manner, of mocking bad arguments. The guy's quite smart but maybe hasn't noticed that you can arrive at any position at all by only attacking people who ineptly disagree with it.