More Children Were Shot Dead in 2017 Than On-Duty Police Officers and Military

Re:More Children Were Shot Dead in 2017 Than On-Duty Police ... by colechristensen on Sunday March 24, 2019 @04:50PM (#19478683)

These are statistics quoted to support an unstated but easily assumed conclusion instead of a search for truth.

Very few people actually care about finding optimums and cause and effect relationships. Publishing compelling results or results that support emotionally derived positions isn't helpful.

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Re:More Children Were Shot Dead in 2017 Than On-Duty Police ... by RickJWagner on Sunday March 24, 2019 @05:19PM (#19478840)

I agree. To me it looks like an appeal to emotions.

I think I've seen too many of these. My brain starts to say "Are they trying to manipulate me?"

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Re:More Children Were Shot Dead in 2017 Than On-Duty Police ... by johnpettus on Sunday March 24, 2019 @07:24PM (#19479340)

You are literally pretending you know the motivation of the writer, and responding to it instead of engaging with the content.

Mind reading + ad hominem

You should probably not criticize the quality of other people's critical thinking.

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