to receive recognition for being a good person
Let me rephrase it as ‘I can buy the status of “a good person”’. Still fine?
http://lesswrong.com/lw/e95/the_noncentral_fallacy_the_worst_argument_in_the/
You’re arguing by analogy: http://lesswrong.com/lw/vx/failure_by_analogy/ and trying to do guilt by association. It’s an appeal to emotion, not reason.
Literally every other website on the internet will allow bad arguments like this… are you sure you don’t want to hang out somewhere else? Seriously, give it some thought.
LOL. You have to try harder :-P
Let me rephrase it as ‘I can buy the status of “a good person”’. Still fine?
http://lesswrong.com/lw/e95/the_noncentral_fallacy_the_worst_argument_in_the/
You’re arguing by analogy: http://lesswrong.com/lw/vx/failure_by_analogy/ and trying to do guilt by association. It’s an appeal to emotion, not reason.
Literally every other website on the internet will allow bad arguments like this… are you sure you don’t want to hang out somewhere else? Seriously, give it some thought.
LOL. You have to try harder :-P