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[-] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 178 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

This was tried in court. The response from the judge was "If the man is dead, then he cannot petition the court. If the man is not dead, then his life sentence has not been served." An excellent exchange of sophistry!

[-] kibiz0r@midwest.social 70 points 2 years ago

Yall ever notice that professions that specialize in logic also tend to produce the dumbest motherfuckers on the planet?

[-] blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 30 points 2 years ago

Logic is only dumb when it goes against what we want lol.

[-] kibiz0r@midwest.social 22 points 2 years ago

Only too true.

the study finds that people who are otherwise very good at math may totally flunk a problem that they would otherwise probably be able to solve, simply because giving the right answer goes against their political beliefs.

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it turns out that highly numerate liberals and conservatives were even more—not less—susceptible to letting politics skew their reasoning than were those with less mathematical ability.

[-] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago

Interesting. I wonder if it could be a kind of Dunning Kruger effect where you assume because you're good at logic or some other smart thing your brain doesn't have all the same zero day exploits as the rest of us.

[-] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 years ago

He's either dead or alive like, it's not hard

[-] SomeBoyo@feddit.de 24 points 2 years ago
[-] capital@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago
[-] abcd@feddit.de 5 points 2 years ago

We can only be sure if we have a look!

[-] BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

If you crashed your car and fixed it, you still crashed your car.

[-] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

Death is nothing like that

[-] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 years ago

Then the car is not dead now

[-] sverit@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Can't his attourney petition on his behalf?

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