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The Satanic Temple, an activist group based in Salem, Massachusetts, is threatening to sue Twitter for religious discrimination after one of its co-founders had his Twitter account permanently suspended.
Lucien Greaves, the Satanic Temple's co-founder and spokesman, said his Twitter account was permanently suspended without any notice after he asked his followers to report a tweet that called for the Satanic Temple to be burned down.
"We're talking to lawyers today," Greaves said Friday about whether he planned to take legal action.
Source: http://www.newsweek.com/satanic-temple-threatens-sue-twitter-over-religious-discrimination-780148
(Score: 2, Informative) by Bot on Monday January 15 2018, @07:33PM (4 children)
> religious people are so because fear of death or loneliness
let us examine a dual sentence
> atheists are so because it enables them to act in immoral ways
Do you spot the fallacy?
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(Score: 2) by bob_super on Monday January 15 2018, @07:40PM (3 children)
I spotted a strawman.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Monday January 15 2018, @09:27PM (2 children)
well done, you should have spotted two.
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(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Monday January 15 2018, @10:53PM (1 child)
If you put spots on your strawman, that just signals that is is not real, and therefore ineffective as a scarecrow. I think we are dealing more with a fallacy of ambiguity here, or possibly an argumentum ad ignoratiam advocatus diaboli.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 16 2018, @12:11AM
I know you'd rather speak Greek but it's spelled "ignorantiam".
Anyway if we don't want no strawman around I vote for post hoc ergo propter hoc.