# Wherein every post is a logical fallacy. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 14, 2007, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wherein-every-post-is-a-logical-fallacy/395886 "2007-03-14T14:13:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2007, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wherein-every-post-is-a-logical-fallacy/395886/21 "2007-03-14T17:35:39Z")
[QUOTE=pravnik] They say the Boy Scouts of America is a ninety seven year old organization, but I met a Boy Scout the other day and he sure didn’t look ninety seven! [/QUOTE] This post was immediately before mine, so it is the reason I posted this fallacy. ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2007, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wherein-every-post-is-a-logical-fallacy/395886/22 "2007-03-14T17:39:55Z")
**Reaitychuck** You argument is wrong becuase you are not qualified to say so, and anyway, your friends are always saying differant. ---
**Author:** ![Carnacki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b5e925/32.png) [@Carnacki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carnacki)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2007, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wherein-every-post-is-a-logical-fallacy/395886/23 "2007-03-14T18:03:06Z")
If you don’t agree that there are no logical fallacies in my post, I’ll punch you in your solar plexus. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2007, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wherein-every-post-is-a-logical-fallacy/395886/24 "2007-03-14T18:50:42Z")
[QUOTE=hawksgirl] Look, if every post before this contains a logical fallacy, then I’ll bet that no posts after this will contain a logical fallacy. The ratio has to catch up. [/QUOTE] That’s just dumb. If every previous post in this thread has a logical fallacy, then every subsequent post must also contain a logical fallacy. ---
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2007, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wherein-every-post-is-a-logical-fallacy/395886/25 "2007-03-14T19:17:02Z")
[QUOTE=Miller] That’s just dumb. If every previous post in this thread has a logical fallacy, then every subsequent post must also contain a logical fallacy. [/QUOTE] And he posts on the same boards as Cecil, so you know he’s right. ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2007, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wherein-every-post-is-a-logical-fallacy/395886/26 "2007-03-14T19:20:22Z")
This is the best of all the posts so far. I know because I’m wearing red socks. ---
**Author:** ![Kevbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e47774/32.png) [@Kevbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kevbo)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2007, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wherein-every-post-is-a-logical-fallacy/395886/27 "2007-03-14T19:46:59Z")
The odds of a thread where every post contains a logical fallacy are vanishingly small, therefore this thread must have been the work of an intelligent designer. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2007, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wherein-every-post-is-a-logical-fallacy/395886/28 "2007-03-14T19:54:33Z")
[QUOTE=Kevbo] The odds of a thread where every post contains a logical fallacy are vanishingly small, therefore this thread must have been the work of an intelligent designer. [/QUOTE] Or a large number of unintelligent designers. If you put an infinite number of subscribers to the Straight Dope together in a room, each with a terminal on the Internet, after an infinite time this thread would have been created as many tiumes as you like (together with its logical converse, threads in which every posting eschews logical fallacies.) ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2007, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wherein-every-post-is-a-logical-fallacy/395886/29 "2007-03-14T19:59:09Z")
This post is not a post. ---
**Author:** ![MonkeyMensch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@MonkeyMensch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyMensch)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2007, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wherein-every-post-is-a-logical-fallacy/395886/30 "2007-03-14T20:07:53Z")
[QUOTE=Autolycus] This post is not a post. [/QUOTE] Rene Magritte, is that you? This post contains a logical fallacy. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2007, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wherein-every-post-is-a-logical-fallacy/395886/31 "2007-03-14T20:24:49Z")
My next post will contain a logical fallacy. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2007, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wherein-every-post-is-a-logical-fallacy/395886/32 "2007-03-14T20:26:15Z")
My immediately previous post did not contain a logical fallacy. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2007, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wherein-every-post-is-a-logical-fallacy/395886/33 "2007-03-14T20:27:36Z")
This post is a lie. (Oops – doesn’t that always crash computers?) ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2007, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wherein-every-post-is-a-logical-fallacy/395886/34 "2007-03-14T20:30:55Z")
All Dopers post by typing. No Doper can post directly to the SDMB by speaking. Therefore, there are no Dopers who are mute. ---
**Author:** ![pizzabrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9c0ed/32.png) [@pizzabrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pizzabrat)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2007, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wherein-every-post-is-a-logical-fallacy/395886/35 "2007-03-14T20:44:05Z")
[QUOTE=5-4-Fighting] All Dopers post by typing. No Doper can post directly to the SDMB by speaking. Therefore, there are no Dopers who are mute. [/QUOTE] You’re forgetting sign language. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2007, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wherein-every-post-is-a-logical-fallacy/395886/36 "2007-03-14T20:52:10Z")
[QUOTE=RealityChuck] This post is a lie. (Oops – doesn’t that always crash computers?) [/QUOTE] If that doesn’t work, this should do the trick: Computer! What is love? ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2007, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wherein-every-post-is-a-logical-fallacy/395886/37 "2007-03-14T20:54:50Z")
[QUOTE=pizzabrat] You’re forgetting sign language. [/QUOTE] And? ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2007, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wherein-every-post-is-a-logical-fallacy/395886/38 "2007-03-14T21:10:28Z")
Either you guys are nuts or I am! :mad: ? ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2007, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wherein-every-post-is-a-logical-fallacy/395886/39 "2007-03-14T21:25:07Z")
If this post were made by someone who failed Philosophy 101 then it would contain a logical fallacy. But it wasn’t, so it doesn’t. ---
**Author:** ![pizzabrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9c0ed/32.png) [@pizzabrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pizzabrat)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2007, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wherein-every-post-is-a-logical-fallacy/395886/40 "2007-03-14T22:04:17Z")
[QUOTE=5-4-Fighting] And? [/QUOTE] And that invalidates your statement. The deaf can communicate perfectly well without speaking at all. There are at least a couple of deaf Dopers, and they can tell you that ASL is just as rich and complex a language as American English. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wherein-every-post-is-a-logical-fallacy/395886.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wherein-every-post-is-a-logical-fallacy/395886.md?page=3)