Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="FormerlyHemlock" data-source="post: 9030717" data-attributes="member: 6787650">Repeating a non sequitur doesn't make it more true. That last bit of your post relies on the non sequitur--and here you're adding another fallacy in the form of a false dichotomy! Since when does not being a one-in-a-million Army Ranger make me someone who has &quot;no knowledge at all about traps, aside from some completely contrived notions stemming from TV&quot;?I assure you, my knowledge is more than zero, and I don't think that makes me special. Is your knowledge really zero on this subject? How can you genuinely know nothing at all about e.g. clotheslining a runner or rider in the dark, or at the head of a staircase; or setting up a deadfall; or preplacing a crossbow? I don't know 100% and it's fine if you don't know 100%, but you're claiming that 999,999 people in a million have 0% knowledge. Think it over for thirty seconds and tell me if you still believe what you wrote.Taking one's best guess is absolutely a valid way to GM and doesn't require injecting another agenda. Again, I'm not claiming that doing so is inherently virtuous! I'm just refuting the idea that it's impossible!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FormerlyHemlock, post: 9030717, member: 6787650"] Repeating a non sequitur doesn't make it more true. That last bit of your post relies on the non sequitur--and here you're adding another fallacy in the form of a false dichotomy! Since when does not being a one-in-a-million Army Ranger make me someone who has "no knowledge at all about traps, aside from some completely contrived notions stemming from TV"? I assure you, my knowledge is more than zero, and I don't think that makes me special. Is your knowledge really zero on this subject? How can you genuinely know nothing at all about e.g. clotheslining a runner or rider in the dark, or at the head of a staircase; or setting up a deadfall; or preplacing a crossbow? I don't know 100% and it's fine if you don't know 100%, but you're claiming that 999,999 people in a million have 0% knowledge. Think it over for thirty seconds and tell me if you still believe what you wrote. Taking one's best guess is absolutely a valid way to GM and doesn't require injecting another agenda. Again, I'm not claiming that doing so is inherently virtuous! I'm just refuting the idea that it's [i]impossible[/i]! [/QUOTE]

Verification