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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Mr_Fish@lemmy.world 2 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.
Wogi@lemmy.world 2 months ago
solsangraal@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
ad hominem
Wogi@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Fallacy fallacy.
Sometimes a person is insufferable and that’s the problem.
Like with lawmakers.
Mr_Fish@lemmy.world 2 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?
Venator@lemmy.nz 2 months ago
It’s also not whataboutism…
5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
motte and bailey
LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
In a way, “because I say so” is appeal to (my) authority
LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Birch@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Which has to be respected, of course.