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		css771 on Sept 12, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: iPhone 5 > if an overwhelming number of reasonable people agree with something you can comfortably assert it So you're saying even if the majority is wrong, they're always right?

Steko on Sept 13, 2012 [–]

"majority" =/= "overwhelming number"

"always right" =/= "comfortably assert"

Nice demonstration of how to construct a straw man though.

css771 on Sept 13, 2012 | [–]

It's the same principle and you're using it to suppport your subjective claims as fact.

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