--- In [email protected], off_world_beings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], new.morning <no_reply@> 
> wrote:
> >
> > --- In [email protected], off_world_beings <no_reply@>
> > > 
> > > Therefore, the challenge is for you anti-science fundies to come 
> on 
> > > YouTube and debate me in a vlog. 
> > > 
> > > Yes folks, I am willing to put my face in a video defending 
> science.
> > > However, the fundies here will find pathetic excuses to not take 
> me 
> > > up on that. The reason is that they are afraid to be seen going 
> > > around saying that the modern scientific process is wrong, and 
> that 
> > > their opinion is more important than science.
> > 
> > 
> > Well first, you need to clarify to the world if you are still 
> beating
> > your wife.>>
> 
> Why are you saying such disgusting things? 
> Does anyone know this guys real name please.
> 
> No really, does anyone know his real name?
> 
> Rick I want this guy banned for a month for saying that lie. I won't 
> accept anything less. I will take this to the courts if this guy is 
> not banned for a month. I'm serious.
> 
> What is his real name anyone?
> 
> I am taking this to court Rick if he is not banned for a month for 
> this.
> 
> Tom Barlow
> Vermont
>
Good one. You are definately honing your satirical skills of
portraying fanatics. Imagine, suing someone for the most common of all
replies to someone making silly claims about others. A plurium
interrogationum. That would be quite funny in court. Perhaps Marek
would be so kind to defend me. What would be my defense in this case?
Aside from cream pies, and clown shoes.

"Many questions, also known as complex question, presupposition,
loaded question, "trick question", or plurium interrogationum (Latin,
"of many questions"), is an informal fallacy. It is committed when
someone asks a question that presupposes something that has not been
proven or accepted by all the people involved. This fallacy is often
used rhetorically, so that the question limits direct replies to those
that serve the questioner's agenda. An example of this is the question
"Are you still beating your wife?" 

Whether the respondent answers yes or no, he will admit to having a
wife, and having beaten her at some time in the past. Thus, these
facts are presupposed by the question, and if it has not been agreed
upon by the speakers before, the question is improper, and the fallacy
of many questions has been committed.

The fallacy relies upon context for its effect: the fact that a
question presupposes something does not in itself make the question
fallacious. Only when some of these presuppositions are not
necessarily agreed to by the person who is asked the question does the
argument containing them become fallacious."



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