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[–]FoxySDT 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Moreover, these authorities can be important, if they're earned the right to be authorities on a given subject. "Appealing to authority" is not necessarily a problem. Don't fear authorities. You're not 12.

Dude do you even know what appeal to authority means? And why that is fallacious?

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Yes - one of many forms of fallacy - which is inappropriately sumamarised in the rules at DAR, and as such, this fallacy can be used to describe so many of the responses of the users at Saidit, not to mention the many other fallacies they engage in. If DAR has a problem with fallacies, it should imploded from the self-realization of how often they're used by misinformation and disinformation memes and websites (eg. listed at /s/ShitpostNews). This particular fallacy is in several forms and would be impossible to ethically and equitably police as part of a set of rules at DAR, thanks especially to how often it's used in the sub.