On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:36:52 -0700 (PDT), Katie Ohara
wrote:

On Aug 27, 10:00*pm, wrote:
I recalled a joke, today, I had heard years ago, and it made me think
of all of these ad hominem arguments, circumstantial and abusive, that
I've seen floating around the group. *And those informal fallacies are
still used even after being exposed. *I suspect that this
joke/anecdote was probably first used by some logician somewhere to
illustrate the flaw in the ad hominem;

A man was driving on his customary route to work one morning, a route
which took him past the grounds of a local asylum. *His car jolted
suddenly, and shuddered violently, upon which he immediately pulled
over to the side of the road. *Somewhat shaken, he failed to notice a
man with fairly long grey hair dressed in a blue jump suit leaning
face first into the security fence that ran along the road bounding
the grounds of the asylum where his car had come to rest. *The driver
of the car checked his vehicle to find that his rear passenger tire
had come off. *He walked the tire back to his vehicle, and realized
that he had no nuts to put on the lugs to hold the tire on. *He began
looking along the road for the nuts, but he couldn't manage to find
even one of them. *By this time he had become aware of the man
standing erect against the fence on the opposite side; but, he was
determined to ignore the asylum patient. *He stood over the tire
trying to weigh his options when a scruffy voice behind him said,
"Mister, take one nut off of each of the other tires and put those
three nuts on your tire that came off your car. *You can drive the car
to the service station and have the missing nuts replaced." *The
driver, amazed by what he heard, turned around and asked, "What are
you doing in an asylum? *You're a genuis!" *The patient, still leaning
into the fence, not looking at the driver, churlishly replied "I'm in
here for being crazy, not for being dumb."

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A good one

Yeah, but will any fallacy-weilding, propaganda-toting,
calumny-sporting, disinformation-propagating progressive learn from
it?¹ I think not!

¹This applies only to those obdurate, unscrupulous, narcissistic
progressives that practice such things.

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