"If nobody corrects me, I must be correct!"

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I keep hearing this nonsense over and over. It is appeal to ignorance, why do people bother to use it? How come people keep using it?

Can they not think of other reasons why we're tired of answering them? Why must they use appeal to ignorance to show how correct they are?

If we properly answer them, will they accept correction?

If we take time to write a response, will they impatiently declare themselves correct?

If we choose not to respond based on the past history of the questioner, are we incorrect?

Is the person who screams the loudest the one with the most knowledge?

Last edited by iamnotaparakeet on 17 Nov 2007, 10:18 pm, edited 1 time in total.

as there might be a lot of reasons to not respond, this site is too big so I forget where I post sometimes, I am sure I miss some replies because of that, in the case of PPR forum, there must be some reasons why someone does not want to respond, but people may asume that they don't have an answer to that, so that would be why they don't respond, it isn't always the case though, someone might chose not to reply for other reasons.

In my view, there has been a few that came with their religious arguments, but the attitude behind it may be not that well, I admit I fail to have a reasonable attitude, most of the time here Sadly, that appears to be one big obstacle when someone wants to be heard, and one can fail to address in such things appropiately, it happens with me many times which leads to frustration.

As for not replying to that thread, Ragtime chosed not to, he claims he wants to discuss things with "thinking" people only, while that must be the real reason if one doesn't want to get flamed for a certain opinion, although, sometimes it is understandable given how one addresses it and their attitude. I noticed you haven't been here for a few days, and then, no one else, as I believe there might be many christians and believers on this site, just a small number show themselves on this forum regularly.

I figured it might have been used to encourage the other person to either concede his argument is fallacious or to go and actually support his argument, if he's still reading it. Afterall, you could simply be trying to run away from the argument and hope that not responding would make your opponent go away. You don't have to assume that when someone implies they're right if they don't answer that they mean it literally--afterall, someone did spend some time writing out their argument and explaining it, and obviously tried to make an argument that might be correct--the fact that no one is refuting it or coming forward about it may mean you can assume it's correct until someone does come forward and say it's wrong, particularly if you are arguing for something subjective that has no right or wrong answer. Furthermore, when we make arguments, we often assume that the argument we make is correct until someone comes forward and posts a counterargument, and the other person either ignores it and continues believing his argument, they concede their argument is incorrect, or they notice a flaw in their opponent's argument, and explain it.

If no one will come forward to make a counterargument, we can only assume that the argument we already made is correct. Why would you make an argument you don't agree with in the first place?

Upon joining the Christian Aspie Forum on Yahoo, which requires qualifying yourself as a Christian and telling why you want to join (mine was more or less to get a break from WP and its members attacks against me and other Christians) the response was:

what answers did you give me for the questions i had? bible verses? laughable. who was the new testament written by?

The responses you get, which I know some of them are inmature, well, some of mine I guess are inmature as well if you go with a bad attitude you receive a similar response I suppose, while strongly expecting everybody here to have the same beliefs and views, it becomes unrealistic and it is reasonable to asume that not everyone believe the same thing.


As for WP being un-Christian, it's not realistic to expect that everyone here being religious or just believers, WP is not a religious site, its goal has nothing to do with religion or cristianity, but it allows diversity.

ill give ya some props even though im not a christian...

keep in mind you're SUPPOSED to go out in the wilderness and spread the word

im glad you have a place to retreat to though...

but come one... u like getting these responses or else you wouldnt post here

Some people don't reply because they are too busy, can't be bothered arguing any more, can't see anything to argue about even if they don't completely agree, or some combination of the above. Mind you, this list isn't exhaustive. The Chosen One got sick of religion because he kept on being told he would go straight to hell.

I don't like the responses actually, that's why I've been gone for so long.

There are generally three reasons why I don't respond to certain posts. First, the subject doesn't interest me. Second, the post is a essentially a repeat of a previous post to which I've already responded. Third, the post is a loaded rhetorical question that doesn't seem to intend that people genuinely respond.

I guess there is one more reason I don't respond, absenteeism.

There was a sign up in a conference room at a place I used to work at. It said 'Silence is not agreement." Silence isn't anything at all - it is nothing.

Of course, how would TITS OR GTFO and NO U work otherwise?

I always think I have the right to remain silent. Everything I don't say can't be used against me...

Interpreting silence as a "yes" or "no" seems too neurotypical for my taste.

Sometimes you just get too tired of trying to argue with people, they'll drone on and on with a point of view that makes no since, no amount of logic or proof will convince them otherwise, so it just becomes pointless to keep arguing.

well, I am glad you found a place, an aspie place that you feel more comfortable being there, with that specific nature on subjects that interests you more, anyone would feel better in a place that comfort to their own interests, I guess.

But, don't you miss the LP thread, just a little bit?

i gotta call straight up BS on this. you've initiated more than your share of attacks on atheists.