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Proper inference should consider all available data not just historical data.

Just waving around numbers is not correct reasoning from first principles!

Correct and proper inference should include present threats, beliefs and intentions of relevant groups. Do you account for that?

Just because an axe-wielding madman has not committed any murders in the past, you would not let him be on his own.

Just an instant before the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, nobody in that city had been killed by an atom bomb. You would probably stare at the bomb dropping on your head waving around stats saying the bomb is not a threat to your existence.

"The past never repeats itself precisely; otherwise, historians would be rolling in riches." - James Gipson, Clipper Fund

Your comment is a one-way attack on sanity. It would take me a lot of effort to show where you went wrong. It takes you only a bit of effort to be wrong.



Random platitudes, tu quoque, ambiguity, lazy criticism, vague references, pedestrian insults

--cscurmudgeon


Instead of insulting me, care to rebut my arguments?

This is hilarious. I know you feel offended that I have shown that one drive a huge plane through the holes in your reasoning, but you don't respond with a barrage of "fallacies." Sigh.




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