Originally Posted by
LV426
So...thanks for providing such a clear-cut example of sophistry for everyone to see.
What you were arguing was that there are teachers who have millions in retirement accounts that they saved themselves. You wanted people reading this thread to think that there are plenty of smart teachers who take their low wage, save for decades, and retire with millions in their retirement accounts.
However, we come to find out that yes, there are teachers who have millions in their retirement accounts but that is placed within the context that half of them inherited their wealth, and an as-yet-undefined number of them are married to high earners and their combined savings tops $1M.
So what you did was basically argue that apples and oranges are the same thing because they're both fruit.
Are apples and oranges the same, Flash? Or are there differences between the two; stark differences and distinctions that distinguish them from each other. You wouldn't argue that an apple is citrus, would you? Because you're basically arguing that they are when you argue that there are teachers who have millions in their retirement accounts when you leave out the important context that half of them inherited their wealth, and a still-to-be-determined-by-you number are married to high earners and their combined savings are $1M.
You understand what you did, right? The means by which you went about making and then falsely sourcing your argument by dismissing important distinctions that reshape the thrust of what you were arguing as irrelevant.
They were only irrelevant to your argument because they forced it to change.
It's a habit of yours here, Flash. You do that kind of deceptive shit all the time. You post half the story, hoping no one pick sup on it, and then when someone does, you dismiss it as irrelevant.
What a fucking brat.
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