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Logic can be a tricky tool to use.  There is art involved.  You can watch the following embedded video that makes an entirely self consistant case as to why we should talk a certain route with regards MMGW.  However since it is self consistant should we run screaming for mercy from High Priest Al Gore?

No. You see self consistency is an important feature of all cases made logically but it is not the whole story.  You see self consistency can be thought of as a donut of logic.  You start at any point of the donut and travel along it.  Sooner or later you end up at the place you began at.   For example:

• I am a wonderful person - smart and good looking, and humble enough to admit it !
• since I am wonderful then its easy to see I always tell the truth
• since I always tell the truth well gee darn I must really be good looking, smart and humble

Now you see this all self consistent if you allow me enough room to be humorous in my demo case.  Yet clearly there are cases where people fit the complete description and there are cases where people totally do not match the description of wonder, attractive,humble truthful.  Thus self consistency is not enough by itself.  It needs something more!   It needs some objective measurable truth or logic that is ABOVE the whole issue.  That is to say am I really attractive or is that just what my mother tells me?!

In the following video a rather nurdish fellow goes on about MMGW.    He tries to corner you into "acting" on MMGW by a logically self consistent argument.  He appears intelligent however he only thinks he is smart.   While you watch the video mentally replace every reference to "global warming" with one of the following

• alien invasion and that we should all be building spaceships to attack the aliens first
• or better yet send Freemon SandleWould a million dollars - I like this better because Freemon is likely to share with me if you mistakenly still think you must act.

When you mentally replace with one of these phrases you see the blatant flaw!   If his argument was correct you could substitute topics until infinity !!   And quickly do you run out of time, money and attention span to deal with the issues!

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Hole duly punched in argument.  You sir need to go back to organizing your pop can collection because thinking is not your strong suit.

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