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(09-12-2016 11:31 PM)Delta Wrote:  

(09-12-2016 07:02 PM)MMX2010 Wrote:  

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I missed this on my first pass through the thread, but I strongly disagree.

Children are far more likely to drown to death on days when they use sunscreen. Ergo, sunscreen use is highly correlated with drowning. So should we stop using sunscreen?

I'll respect your argument if you post YouTube videos of you going to the beach without sunscreen, because you know that drowning is correlated with wearing sunscreen.

Then, post YouTube videos of you with severe sunburn (or sun poisoning) telling your doctor that you refuse to wear sunscreen because wearing sunscreen is correlated to people drowning.

Without any evidence that you've personally suffered because you implemented your argument, you come across as an insincere individual who contemptuously and undeservedly assumes that others are stupid.

Huh? My example was a deliberately absurd rhetorical device designed to disprove your belief that correlation alone is sufficient to inform one's behavior, obviously not a literal suggestion. I honestly have no idea what you're getting at with this response, but it definitely doesn't address the argument I presented.

Don't bother debating MMX2010. Just read the drug policy thread. He's made it explicitly clear that his goal in debating is just to troll, and that he's not interested in honest intellectual discourse. Don't feed it.