Revisiting the Dealbreaker Fallacy

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During the last election season, djw wrote a superb post about the illogic of using "dealbreakers" rather than a holistic evaluation of candidates. At least two commenters in a thread yesterday inadvertently demonstrate why the approach makes no sense in the course of defending it.  Lets...
I'm outraged by these Hollywood liberals. Not only have they refused to make a movie about how Martin Luther King was the foremost 20th century proponent of slavery, the movies they do make refuse to acknowledge that what the abolitionist conspiracy referred to as "slavery" wasn't...
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On March 4, 1915, President Woodrow Wilson signed the LaFollette Seamen's Act, creating standards for working conditions on boats that the U.S. would enforce on all ships stopping at American ports, whether under American flags or not. It was not only a major early victory for...

“I made you, I can break you”

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The Self-Styled Siren on Kim Novak: So let’s say — just as a hypothetical for-instance — you are an 81-year-old star whose last movie was in 1991 and who hasn’t been to the Oscars in many a long year. Not that you were ever nominated for...
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