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Unconscious bigotry  [message #70620] Fri, 11 December 2015 10:58 Go to previous message
timmy

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I was sent this by a friend. At first sight it looked reasonable, but I looked deeper

http://forum.iomfats.org/?t=getfile&id=2175&private=0

That's interesting, but wrong.

I will eat No M&Ms from that sample unless and until all the poisonous ones are found and removed. There is a certainty that any one of 10 of them would, if eaten, kill me.

However, I will accept Syrian refugees because there is no certainty that any individual member will kill me. None have been declared to be deadly. There is a suspicion, yes, but not a certainty

I am biased. I am the son of a refugee fleeing a regime that would have killed him. If there is a risk I will take it

I told him this. I was heartened by the reply. He said "Thank you, that's made me think!"

It is a logical fallacy, which you may determine from a list of fallacies.
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