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The case against cases.

Even the most compelling and logically consistent case stands upon "mere" observation, convention and authority.

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Couldn't you have replied to this post instead of modding it into invisibility?

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sieabahlpark 2 minutes ago [dead] | parent | next [–]

Don't you know, the appeal to authority is the new "I'm smart enough to be credentialed, don't question me".

College really has made a whole group of people think they're elite when all they did was acquire debt and some watered down education.

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Not that it’s a strictly uninteresting topic but it 1) was presented in a way that will cause many people to be defensive and 2) has an unclear association with the topic of these comments. Both of those are common reasons for downvotes on a comment here.

Well then you could have said that at the beginning. Now we can take your opinions and maybe agree with them.

That comment was dead before I could vote on it. I was just describing what I saw in it which seemed likely reasons for it to have been downvoted so much.

Some of the people here really like to censor.

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