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Re:He wrote the future: On Arthur C. Clarke's centenary
by BeetleB on Monday January 23, 2017 @10:31AM
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>I find it very suspicious that a wealthy European man would choose to live in a wartorn country.
This is the classic example of: "Out of ignorance comes certainty."
You're essentially saying that because you cannot explain the behavior of one individual, then the explanation is likely/must be X.
You don't know = ignorance
It must be X = certainty.
Just as an FYI, he moved there long before it was a wartorn country. He chose to stay. Just as so many wealthy Sri Lankans who could have left did not. Why focus on the wealthy European and not the wealthy locals?
Re:He wrote the future: On Arthur C. Clarke's centenary
by jacobush on Monday January 23, 2017 @09:46AM
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Pretty much yeah, unless you have other evidence this Michael Jackson (who is that anyway?) did horrific acts.
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Re:He wrote the future: On Arthur C. Clarke's centenary
by jacobush on Monday January 23, 2017 @10:08AM
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Well it may be perhaps not suspicious but intriguing. There may be any number of reasons for such a move. (For instance he may have felt more at ease fraternising with boyfriends away from prude old England.) Look, I am not trying to whitewash him. But saying: wealthy european moves to wartorn country, therefore paedophile, is using the "jump to conclusions mat" a bit too much.