DISQUS

Will Wilkinson: Hitler Was a Vegetarian, Pinochet Privatized Social Security, Satan Rides a Bicycle, and Other Irrelevancies

  • Keelay · 5 years ago
    Sounds like you have a little straw man of your own there, Will.

    Don't you think a reasonable story can be told about Pinochet where a callous disregard for human life is the common correlate? I think the Hitler-Vegetarian or Stalin-Phys. Ed. story might be a little harder to concoct.

    Not saying I don't agree with you entirely. Or even that I read the linked article. I just like being a self-righteous prick.
  • Will Wilkinson · 5 years ago
    Kyle, And you're so good at it!

    Read the article. It's really just fabulously stupid.
  • Keelay · 5 years ago
    Hee-Hee. That article IS pretty funny. And his linkage is so smooth . . .

    There should be a licensing board for sophists.
  • bob mcmanus · 5 years ago
    "Sounds like you have a little straw man of your own there, Will."

    Hitler was evil. Hitler created extermination camps. Therefore extermination camps are evil.

    We must always be careful with ad hominem arguments.

    Michael Moore lies sometimes. M Moore says George Bush is a tool of the Saudi Royal Family. Therefore GWB is not a tool of the Saudi Royal Family.

    Restrepo uses ad hominem arguments. Restrepo says personal retirement accounts are evil. Therefore personal retirement accounts aren't evil.
  • Rob · 5 years ago
    Otherwise known as the reductio ad Hitlerum (as Strauss once referred to it).
  • UGH! · 5 years ago
    That was funny, Rob!
  • han · 5 years ago
    Dan Restrepo has worked on Western Hemisphere issues! He's worked with "issues"! He's a good person!
  • Jocosa · 5 years ago
    hrotizlzp gaear.