Logical Fallacies: Special Pleading part 1

[TheFrenchInquisition]

Your brain is a sexy place. You know that, right?

[lazyperfectionist1]

I've been told.

[TheFrenchInquisition]

How's the poster coming along?

[lazyperfectionist1]

Poster?

[TheFrenchInquisition]

Shall I expect a calendar? Oh, that would be lovely.

[Katalyzt]

★★★★★

[dewinthemorning]

5star and fave'd!

Yes, your material circumstances determine your way of thinking.

[FHomeBrew]

To teach everyone English is not unreasonable special pleading. A lot of people already can speak and read English and it is already taught extensively. To change languages would take a lot of effort, time and materials (books to be (re)printed etc.).

Plus, English has been used in the past extensively and is thus used in a lot of past records and documents.

It's not unreasonable special pleading.

[lazyperfectionist1]

A lot of people also already speak Chinese and French and each language has each also been used extensively in the past and is thus used in a lot of past records and documents. Changing languages in each of these cases would take a lot of effort which conservatives in this country have no compunctions about asking people to put forth.

Besides there are more people in the world who speak Chinese and more countries which have French as their main language.

[lazyperfectionist1]

Furthermore, Chinese has changed a lot less than English has over the past several centuries, so that someone fluent in modern Chinese is much more able to read a record in Chinese from ten centuries ago than someone fluent in moden English is able to do with a record in English from the same time.

[FHomeBrew]

Yes I know but thanks for pointing it out. My comment was just about the English since it's so prominent in my environment. I was actually also commenting more in a general way in that, languages that have a lot of users should be plead for specially. I'm oké with three or four mayor languages around the world which I can see back in the classrooms. I think those languages are English, Chinese, Arabic and French or something.

[josealonsoleon]

And why not kill every other person which does not want to learn one of these!!! Come on thoughts like that are seeds that when planted into feeble minds can flourish and develop into fascist xenophobic actions. If I could shake a magic wand and have the whole world speak one single language, I would, but that's day dreaming. I would also eliminate all frontiers and borders which is much easier then eliminating different languages.

[FHomeBrew]

While killing seems to be your daydream, I'd rather change the languages that are taught along with the national language of a country. For example, in europe, a lot of countries teach (besides their own national language) french, english, german and spain. German is spoken a lot less than quite a few other languages. I'm in favour of changing from german to some language that has more users (or at least open the possibility to students.

[Mephistophilus]

4:32 I lul'd

5:16 YAY!

6:36 I consider their creation just as irrelevant but considered it better after reading it on artistic merits.

[lazyperfectionist1]

Absolutely. Artistic merits FTW.