CantaloupeLifestyle@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agoCassidy Hutchinson Gives Dark Reason Why ‘Everybody Should Vote For Joe Biden’www.huffpost.comexternal-linkmessage-square194fedilinkarrow-up1174arrow-down135
arrow-up1139arrow-down1external-linkCassidy Hutchinson Gives Dark Reason Why ‘Everybody Should Vote For Joe Biden’www.huffpost.comCantaloupeLifestyle@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agomessage-square194fedilink
minus-squareSybil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 months agowhat do I care what their chances of winning are if I don’t want them to win? why would I have over someone if I don’t want them to win?
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 months agoSo neither Trump nor Biden will do a single thing you want to happen or a single thing you want to stop happening that the other will not? Not one?
minus-squareSybil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 months agothat isn’t my standard. my standard is whether I want someone to win. that’s why I vote for people.
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 months agoAgain- what does that achieve if they have no chance of winning?
minus-squareSybil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 months agoI vote for the person that I want. that’s what it achieves it’s an end in itself.
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 months agoNo, that’s circular reasoning. That doesn’t explain why you do it. Although it sounds like you’re saying your vote is symbolic. I’m not sure why you bother voting at all in that case. No one will know you voted.
minus-squareSybil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 months agocircular reasoning is internally consistent.
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 months agoCircular reasoning is a logical fallacy. Why are you bothering to vote at all beyond mental masturbation?
minus-squareSybil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-29 months agoI have a right to vote. I don’t need to justify it to anyone. I vote for the person I want to win.
minus-squareSybil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 months agocircular reasoning is not necessarily fallacious.
what do I care what their chances of winning are if I don’t want them to win? why would I have over someone if I don’t want them to win?
So neither Trump nor Biden will do a single thing you want to happen or a single thing you want to stop happening that the other will not? Not one?
that isn’t my standard. my standard is whether I want someone to win. that’s why I vote for people.
Again- what does that achieve if they have no chance of winning?
I vote for the person that I want. that’s what it achieves it’s an end in itself.
No, that’s circular reasoning. That doesn’t explain why you do it. Although it sounds like you’re saying your vote is symbolic. I’m not sure why you bother voting at all in that case. No one will know you voted.
circular reasoning is internally consistent.
Circular reasoning is a logical fallacy.
Why are you bothering to vote at all beyond mental masturbation?
I have a right to vote. I don’t need to justify it to anyone. I vote for the person I want to win.
circular reasoning is not necessarily fallacious.