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Speaking of Scotsmen, I'm reading about the "No-True-Scotsman" fallacy.
The name comes from Anthony Flew, a philosopher.
He wrote Thinking about Thinking in 1975.
In it, a man from Scotland reads about a terrible sex crime in England.
The Scotsman proclaims, "No Scotsman would do such a thing."
Then, the next day, he reads about an even worse sex crime occurring in Scotland,
& he says, "No true Scotsman would do such a thing."
Our Scottish friend would rather not believe his Scottish brothers & sisters could be so indecent & cruel, so he creates a fantasy definition that excludes bad people from being like him. Now he can continue to be in a group that does no wrong.
"News" reporters commit this fallacy quite a bit.
In 2011, Anders Behring Breivik set off bombs in Norway, at one point dressing up as a police officer & shooting at children. He killed 71 people, but Breivik also went out of his way, announcing himself to be a conservative Christian out to stop the "Muslim colonization" of Europe.
It would seem obvious that this guy is not someone that other Christians would want associated with their faith. He was too extreme, had a manifesto on social media, wanting to be a born-again Crusader, participating in the Christian version of jihad.
Bill O'Reilly went on TV to tell his millions of fans:
"Breivik is not a Christian. That's impossible. No one believing in Jesus commits mass murder. The man might have called himself a Christian on the Net, but he is certainly not of that faith."
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