{"id":838,"date":"2025-06-17T19:35:46","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T01:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=838"},"modified":"2025-06-17T19:35:46","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T01:35:46","slug":"dumb-arguments-and-arbitrary-elements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=838","title":{"rendered":"Dumb Arguments and Arbitrary Elements"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Elica Le Bon v. Her Reflection<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<iframe id=\"odysee-iframe\" style=\"width:100%; aspect-ratio:16 \/ 9;\" src=\"https:\/\/odysee.com\/%24\/embed\/%40MarginalNonHermit%3A3%2Farbitrary-argument%3Af?r=8gvoByECHNgc2BfQ5o91oxf89bpi1Ui4\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">There are a lot of ways to make a weak argument. One of the most common is to base your argument on some arbitrary selection&#8211;the endpoints of your graph, or a significant event. The problem is that such arguments are usually not universal, and can easily be turned back against you by a different arbitrary choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Elica Le Bon made this mistake a couple of months ago, and I was trying to figure out how to talk about it, when the horrible hand of history decided to give me an even more awful example.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">This video is available on <a href=\"https:\/\/odysee.com\/@MarginalNonHermit:3\/arbitrary-argument:f\">Odysee<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/y66Wt5o3Xs0\">YouTube<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitchute.com\/video\/FAlZA5fvYW9R\/\">BitChute<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Part of the Problem, &#8220;It&#8217;s Mass Murder&#8221;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=k_bYFnoJo08\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=k_bYFnoJo08<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Intro quote by Jakub Bo\u017cydar Wi\u015bniewski<br>www.jakubw.com\/2019\/08\/on-crucial-role-of-unobvious-virtues.html<br>(His blog doesn&#8217;t allow https for whatever reason, so visit with care!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Intro music courtesy Pixabay<br><a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/music\/main-title-just-a-regular-day-123252\/\">https:\/\/pixabay.com\/music\/main-title-just-a-regular-day-123252\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elica Le Bon v. Her Reflection There are a lot of ways to make a weak argument. One of the most common is to base your argument on some arbitrary selection&#8211;the endpoints of your graph, or a significant event. The problem is that such arguments are usually not universal, and can easily be turned back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,4,2],"tags":[12,60,72],"class_list":["post-838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-philosophy","category-political","category-video-link","tag-antiwar","tag-libertarian","tag-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/marginalnonhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/thumb-1.png?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":840,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions\/840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}