Vlad the Irrelevantist,
I'm not having a cow over this and suggest you don't either.
I'm taking it that List/reply number 33 are the arguments.
Then, as so often, you (or your cow) “take it” wrongly. The
actual argument is that, when arguments can be used equally to validate “God” and leprechauns, then those arguments are probably bad ones. The list in Reply 33 is merely
illustrative of the types of argument that can do that.
firstly they are bad arguments for anything....
True but irrelevant. See above.
Secondly it is debateable whether they are used.
Actually it isn’t, but it’s irrelevant in any case. See above.
Thirdly they are not an exhaustive list of arguments.
That’s not what
illustrative lists are for (perhaps you missed the: "
...and, wearily, on and on they go" at the end of the list?), and it’s irrelevant in any case. See above.
They don't actually tell us anything about ridiculousness(or God or Leprechauns for that matter) which is to do with emotion....after all mention Leprechauns and you get almost unanimous smiles. Mention God and you might get titters from a small part of the survey, some scuffles in another, mature handled emotion among the sensible.
Highly debatable, but irrelevant in any case. The only relevant point here is that, when arguments validate with equal facility “God” and conjectures everyone already thinks to be ridiculous, then those arguments are probably bad ones.
A sense of ridicule is after all a subjective thing.
As is your conjecture “God”, but irrelevant in any case. The only relevant point here is that, when an argument validates a conjecture that everyone already thinks to be relevant (leprechauns being but one of many possible examples) and “God” equally, then it’s probably a bad argument.
Why you keep ducking and diving in response to this with your list of irrelevances is anyone’s guess, but there it is nonetheless. While your preferred modus operandi is lying and dissembling rather than attempting arguments of any kind, whenever you do feel like doing the latter if you ask yourself, “does this argument work just as well for leprechauns?” you’ll save yourself and others time by not bothering with it.
You’re welcome.
