[LINK] Minister warned on porn filters

Rick Welykochy rick at praxis.com.au
Wed Jan 2 12:28:33 AEDT 2008


Ivan Trundle wrote:

> What didn't amuse me was that the thrust of the argument during the 
> hearing went like this: if you didn't use filtering, or advocate 
> filtering, then you're a pornographer, or worse.

The conditional is easily proven false by disproving its contrapositive.

"If you are not a pornographer then you use internet filtering."

This is demonstrably false, as is the original statement.


cheers
rickw

p.s. I am reading Gore's "The Assault on Reason" which raises the
question of why we so often blandly accept illogical and emotive
"arguments" without challenge.



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