sj_zero on Nostr: I had my three year old read these posts back to me out loud, and he said: "egads ...

I had my three year old read these posts back to me out loud, and he said: "egads father, it seems to me quite likely that these people are putting words in the mouths of their children to give a strange sort of pseudo-authority to their own rather inappropriate anxieties towards merely losing an election. I would coin a phrase 'argumentum ex pueritia', or argument from childhood, to describe this self-evident fallacy. Most children at this age generally have between 200 and 1000 words in their vocabulary, and are learning basic concepts such as sentences containing up to 5 words, let alone drawing comparisons between atrocities or the Holocaust which are taught in high school and modern day politics. Rather than being evidence of some immutable truth, if a 3 year old said such things it might be evidence that the parent was coaching the child in ways that are wholly unethical."

Naturally I slapped him and told him to finish his pocky.