> This is a list full of educated people saying only educated people
> should be allowed to vote.

Shiv, please read slowly, the fallacy of Circumstantial ad hominem....

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A Circumstantial ad Hominem is a fallacy because a person's interests and 
circumstances have no bearing on the truth or falsity of the claim being made. 
While a person's interests will provide them with motives to support certain 
claims, the claims stand or fall on their own.

There are times when it is prudent to be suspicious of a person's claims, such 
as when it is evident that the claims are being biased by the person's 
interests. For example, if a tobacco company representative claims that tobacco 
does not cause cancer, it would be prudent to not simply accept the claim. This 
is because the person has a motivation to make the claim, whether it is true or 
not.

However, the mere fact that the person has a motivation to make the claim does 
not make it false. For example, suppose a parent tells her son that sticking a 
fork in a light socket would be dangerous. Simply because she has a motivation 
to say this obviously does not make her claim false.
Examples of Circumstantial Ad Hominem

   1. "She asserts that we need more military spending, but that is false, 
since she is only saying it because she is a Republican."

   2. "I think that we should reject what Father Jones has to say about the 
ethical issues of abortion because he is a Catholic priest. After all, Father 
Jones is required to hold such views."

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People on the list being educated or otherwise cannot be a basis for rejecting 
the argument against letting ignorant and illiterate voters to vote.

Lukhman


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