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Old 07-11-2008, 10:39 PM   #11
Clodfobble
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Originally Posted by Pico and ME
However, I think that most people are basing their faith on their upbringing and, perhaps in part, societal peer pressure.
This is a classic logical fallacy, that someone who disagrees with you must only do so because they have not examined the evidence. You have just met someone who you can see has examined the evidence and arrived at a different conclusion than yours... and yet your response is that he is the exception, all the rest of the people who disagree with you still must have not actually thought about the issue for themselves. "Soften" the words all you want, you just readily admitted that you're not willing to be wrong.

But you can have a bonus point for not using the word "sheep" yet. Congratulations.
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