I think there's a correlation between obsession over a group of people and violence.
Are you co-responsible for the Isla Vista shooting because you used the same app as Elliot Rodger? You can't be fucking serious.
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I'd be co-responsible if I definitely had a link with Elliot Rodger. Something like, I dunno, friends and feed could definitely help with that one. But you conveniently seemed to sidestep that part of my hypothetical.
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Hardly. You were vilifying Gab's entire userbase just now as well as the platform. Now you're shifting goalposts to the shooter's buddies.
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You said they're just jokes, and I showed one person who made jokes of a similar vein, then acted on those jokes. He frequently interacted on an app around like minded people. It's really hard to say the correlation isn't there. That was my point. You're not making one, though.
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And we're back to *insinuating* a causal link out of a correlation. You're done. Just admit you have no argument other than pointing at a correlation and desperately hoping no one notices your inability to demonstrate causation.
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I never intended to demonstrate causation. While I'm not glad I had this chat, I did learn that you assume too much. Later.
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"You assume too much" said the person engaging in leaps of faith in order to vilify an app and its userbase based on the actions of a single user. You're not fooling anyone. The reason you're unhappy about this convo is because it confronted you with your irrational argument.
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You never confronted any point, lol. Also, doth thou cast stones while in a house of glass? You assumed I was going towards proposing censoring the app, which is why you questioned me on it. You also assumed that I would defend Twitter or Facebook, which is laughable.
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