• Mango
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    2 years ago

    While I’m on the side of pitbulls, don’t go waving around an appeal to authority fallacy like that.

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      2 years ago

      Point of order: That’s not an appeal to authority. The other user was pointing out organizations that have actual expertise in the field. “Appeal to authority” is if they said “Bill Gates said pitbulls are fine”

      He’s an authority figure, but not expertise in the matter.

      Whereas the CDC, the humane society, the American veterinary association etc etc are actually experts in at least some part of the argument.

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        2 years ago

        And you know for sure they’re not serving their own interest?

        Imagine a statistics agency said any particular human race was more dangerous.