The Effect of State Marijuana Legalizations

Post by icc97 » Mon, Oct 03, 2016, 2:12 PM UTC

dummkopf99 wrote: post #177

icc97 wrote: post #166

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I actually think it would be a great idea to explicitly start a company that only wanted to hire immigrants especially Syrian refugees: - they're more motivated (they have people lives depending on them making money and sending it back, they actually want to move here rather than just being born here) - they're often richer (i.e. they don't come to live off the state) than those that stay in their own country as they…

You ignore the most important characteristic of these refugees.

Post by [deleted] » Sun, Oct 09, 2016, 3:32 PM UTC

pjlegato wrote: post #33

existencebox wrote: post #25

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Because who is saying something colors the merit it brings. And as a healthy skeptic, knowing the direction to look for potential bias _does_ help orient my skepticism and find potential ulterior motives within the infinite space of "all ulterior motives". I certainly was asking myself "I wonder who was backing this" while reading it. (Don't take me the wrong way, I absolutely agree with you with respect to not filte…

> Because who is saying something colors the merit it brings Not at all; this is the "ad hominem" logical fallacy. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem ) The claims being made are objectively true or false entirely independently of any personal attributes of the person making them. In other words, who is saying something is entirely irrelevant to the merit of what they are saying.