On Tue, 10 Jul 2018 17:46:46 +1000 Erik Christiansen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ego drives young men to reinvent the wheel, then declaim "mine is > grand, and I deprecate (piss on) the old." Hi Erik, I think the preceding is a generalization accurate only anecdotally, and is the opposite of and as bad as people calling one a "neckbeard" because one prefers what came before systemd. There are two logical fallacies called "Appeal to Novelty" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_novelty) and "Appeal to Tradition" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_tradition) that deal with assumption of truth or falsehood based solely on age. To make your statement true, you would have needed the word "some" before "young". To make it a complete articulation of the truth, you'd have needed to say "and some young men and some women too." If you deduce that I'm bothered by this, you're right: I think inter-generational sniping obscures the issues. SteveT Steve Litt Author: The Key to Everyday Excellence http://www.troubleshooters.com/key Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
