Morendil comments on Rationality witticisms suitable for t-shirts or bumper stickers - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Morendil 16 June 2013 05:23:52PM 0 points [-]

Sorry, I don't understand what you mean by <Special Pleading Objection>.

Pointing out that your argument appears to be a form of special pleading - you introduced a general rule ("wearing puffy shirts is bad"), I pointed out counterexamples (Depp, also women), you picked one of these and said "but he is special".

Comment author: hedges 16 June 2013 07:58:10PM *  1 point [-]

I see. Through counterexamples we can demonstrate anything to be acceptable fashion in certain scenarios.

The puffy shirt is irrelevant (I feel like arguing but let me try and resist that). I found your counterexamples about t-shirts to be stronger evidence, and I did adjust my beliefs. I can offer you no good evidence on how people on average perceive t-shirts with slogans on them.