melmc on Nostr: Your logic lesson for today: The genetic fallacy is the act of rejecting or accepting ...
Your logic lesson for today:
The genetic fallacy is the act of rejecting or accepting an argument on the basis of its origin rather than its content. Under the genetic fallacy, we judge a claim by paying too much attention to its source or history, even though this criticism is irrelevant to the truth of the claim.
If you understand the genetic fallacy you should realize that calling the originator of the argument a name is insufficient to refute the argument.
The solution is to hold all malefactors responsible; not to allow all of them to individually evade responsibility by pointing to the crimes of each other and claim that the crimes of the other guy or gal were worse.
The genetic fallacy is the act of rejecting or accepting an argument on the basis of its origin rather than its content. Under the genetic fallacy, we judge a claim by paying too much attention to its source or history, even though this criticism is irrelevant to the truth of the claim.
If you understand the genetic fallacy you should realize that calling the originator of the argument a name is insufficient to refute the argument.
The solution is to hold all malefactors responsible; not to allow all of them to individually evade responsibility by pointing to the crimes of each other and claim that the crimes of the other guy or gal were worse.