Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by BizarroLand 1750 days ago
Why does where it was written matter? Saying that it being written in the footnotes invalidates the argument is the logical fallacy of poisoning the well.

You would actually need to refute the argument directly for your assertion to have any weight to it.

1 comments

What I'm saying is:

- People make a big deal about renowned philosopher Karl Popper warning us of the danger and incoherence of tolerance towards free speech. I think this misuses his rep.

- The one-paragraph quote on the Wikipedia page linked above was Popper's full writing on this. You don't need to look further for it.

Others were already addressing the object-level arguments.