News that an environmental activist has taken over the Discovery Channel headquarters to demand an end to “filthy human babies” reminds us that religion can take a number of guises. [...]
But one way to detect logical fallacies is to see what happens when you scale them up. Those harmless ideas when projected onto a horizon ten miles high and fifty miles wide are so awe-inspiringly crazy that either you say “what the f**k?” or “why not?” James Lee said “why not”. When the cops finally take down James Lee and people go back to carrying out the same program in small but unnoticeable ways, who will dare to say, “a prophet, now there was a prophet!” [emphasis, mine]
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