• Mr Fish@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    That is an appeal to authority, but not a fallacious one. Lawmakers know a lot about how and why people steal. Fallacious appeal to authority is when the authority you’re talking about has no knowledge of the topic, for example quoting a psychologist on nutrition advice.

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      10 months ago

      Lawmakers don’t know shit about fuck. Sometimes they have experts available they listen to. Otherwise it’s whoever spends the most, who they’re buddies with, or what just feels like it will jive with their base at the time.

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          10 months ago

          Fallacy fallacy.

          Sometimes a person is insufferable and that’s the problem.

          Like with lawmakers.

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        10 months ago

        Lawmakers, or at least those advising them, know plenty about theft and all its different flavors. Why do you think rich people theft like fraud is punished so much more lightly than poor people theft?