Let's play some logical fallacy bingo this morning, courtesy of a libertarian opinion piece in the paper (shocker)pic.twitter.com/eXZ8egq08S
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5/ Appeal to emotion. The quote from Orwell is an obvious ploy to distract from the fact that this is wild conjecture and the author has no real basis for this claim at allpic.twitter.com/hYVW5kTPYK
The slippery slope goes on for a while. If we ban cash payments now, in a few years' time the government will be monitoring everything you do!pic.twitter.com/0iUhLtTMSc
7/ Appeal to emotion/Special pleading. Yes, the ban ~might~ effect some domestic violence survivors who are buying cars with >$10,000 cash. Maybe. This would almost certainly be the extreme exceptionpic.twitter.com/oVtVnlhdwx
(I'm not a DV researcher, but if anyone wants to note how often DV survivors are making >$10,000 cash payments I'd be really interested to know the stats)
I could go on. The piece has at least 1 logical fallacy per paragraph Here it is in all its logically-problematic glory https://amp.smh.com.au/politics/federal/measures-to-tackle-black-economy-are-suspiciously-totalitarian-20180511-p4zero.html?__twitter_impression=true …
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