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Is he though (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 178 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 71 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Tell Schrödinger that

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What’s in the box!?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

We can only be sure if we have a look!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Death is nothing like that

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Then the car is not dead now

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Can't his attourney petition on his behalf?