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> Successful sanctions are the exception.
To refute, you just need to look at all sanctions, and enumerate the successful ones, and show the proportion is at least half.[0]
If "all" sanctions is onerous, a decent sample (e.g. "sanctions in the last 30 years") would still have weight.
But simply giving an example of something that the claimant clearly agrees with - that's not even close to a refutation.
[0] Clearly one can disagree on what success means, but then nothing in society can yield to logic
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> Successful sanctions are the exception.
To refute, you just need to look at all sanctions, and enumerate the successful ones, and show the proportion is at least half.[0]
If "all" sanctions is onerous, a decent sample (e.g. "sanctions in the last 30 years") would still have weight.
But simply giving an example of something that the claimant clearly agrees with - that's not even close to a refutation.
[0] Clearly one can disagree on what success means, but then nothing in society can yield to logic