It sure as hell does matter.
No it doesn't. If someone says their are extraterrestrials visiting us and goes "see I have an alien right here with me." and the alien goes "hi I'm from Zeta Reticuli, how you doing?" It wouldn't matter if that person was a general in the army or some no account hack farmer, the evidence speaks for itself.
Now if the person just said "there are extraterrestrials visiting us, you just have to take my word for it." We have no reason to believe them. It doesn't matter if they are a general in the army or some no account hack farmer.
You chose who to listen to.
I choose to listen to the person presenting hard evidence. Because they can back their **** up.
You are probably an Obamatron and believe because he says the nation is doing great that it is so.
irrelevant and no, I think this country is in deep.
This subject has been covered by standing Presidents to high ranking Generals, (MacArthur who knew a lot about it says the WORLD MUST UNITE because one day we will be fighting interplanetary invaders!)
Umm yeah, a bit of a half truth going on there. I already covered that in my long post on the video.
in our country saying its true, yet you dopes cant get it through your thick heads that the government is covering this up, EVEN when people involved in the projects come out and try to expose them!
And they are doing a very piss poor job at it since they aren't coming froward with anything to validate those claims. Which is why what they are saying isn't being taken seriously.
lol the list is full of scholars and people at the highest level of security in the nation and yet some skeptics still wont believe.
Still doesn't matter. Maybe you don't understand what an appeal to authority fallacy is?
X is (claimed to be) an authority on subject A.
X makes claim B about subject A.
Therefore, B is true just because X says it's true.
X might not actually be an authority on the subject. In this case the claim is that these military officers or astronauts are authorities on the subject of aliens. This has not been established. It's irrelevant that X is an astronaut or a military general. This doesn't make their claim true.
You're attempting to base the validity of the claim on the origin rather than the arguments for or against the claim.
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The irrelevant appeal to authority is a type of genetic fallacy, attempting to judge a belief by its origin rather than by the arguments for and against the belief. If the belief originated with an authoritative person, then the belief is held to be true. However, even authoritative persons can hold false beliefs.
The irrelevant appeal to authority is a type of genetic fallacy, attempting to judge a belief by its origin rather than by the arguments for and against the belief. If the belief originated with an authoritative person, then the belief is held to be true. However, even authoritative persons can hold false beliefs.
Appeals to authority do not become relevant when instead of a single authority one cites several experts who believe something is true. If the authorities are speaking outside of their field of expertise or the subject is controversial, piling up long lists of supporters does not make the appeal any more relevant. On any given controversial matter there are likely to be equally competent experts on different sides of the issue. If a controversial claim could be established as true because it is supported by experts, then contradictory beliefs would be true, which is absurd. The truth or falsity, reasonableness or unreasonableness, of a belief must stand independently of those who accept or reject the belief.
Finally, it should be noted that it is not irrelevant to cite an authority to support a claim one is not competent to judge. However, in such cases the authority must be speaking in his or her own field of expertise and the claim should be one that other experts in the field do not generally consider to be controversial. In a field such as physics, it is reasonable to believe a claim about something in physics made by a physicist that most other physicists consider to be true. Presumably, they believe it because there is strong evidence in support of it. Such beliefs could turn out to be false, of course, but it should be obvious that no belief becomes true on the basis of who believes it." -skepdic.com
Soon when it is an absolute fact these same skeptics will be like, I knew it all along...
It would do you some good to not jump to conclusions.
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"It is not what the man of science believes that distinguishes him, but how and why he believes it. His beliefs are tentative, not dogmatic; they are based on evidence, not on authority or intuition." -Bertrand Russell