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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	[quote] [b]mas said:[/b] i just dont understand all these guys whining about windows. windows is so bad, so unsafe, so unstable.... its the same with OSX![/quote] This is a pretty common error in argument. I have encountered it in many different guises, usually in topics much more volatile than OS security. Take, for example, the issue of racism. Person A: You know, society B has a real problem with racism. Person B: Oh yeah? Well, society A is racist too! Maybe so (in fact, likely so), but that doesn't make society B any less racist! This is known as the [i]tu quoque[/i] fallacy (literally, "Thou, also"). The truth of a statement does not depend on who said it. If a thief accuses another person of being a thief, the fact that the accuser is a thief has no bearing on the truth of the accusation. So posting articles about how unsafe OSX is does [i]nothing[/i] to defuse claims of how unsafe Windows is. It might make you feel better, but it does not really address the issue. All it does is establish the fact that all OSs have vulnerabilities--it does make any single one of them safer. Sorry mas, I don't mean to get on your case, but I see this fallacy every day (it seems to be especially prevalent on the internet) and it bugs the living crap out me. [img]http://www.liminality.org/asylum/sigs/suho_taegeuk_sig2.gif[/img] ___________________________ Suho: [url=http://www.liminality.org]www.liminality.org[/url] \| [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/4837]Cell 270[/url] \| [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/5689]Sig Rotator[/url] \| [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/22173]the Fellowship of Sup[/url] Loading...
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