{"id":4282,"date":"2023-09-01T12:44:49","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T17:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=4282"},"modified":"2023-09-01T12:44:49","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T17:44:49","slug":"abandonment-to-authority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2023\/09\/01\/abandonment-to-authority\/","title":{"rendered":"Abandonment To Authority"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One of the things I&#8217;ve been kicking around today is where, logically, an appeal to authority who can use force falls.  It&#8217;s not completely the logical <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Argument_from_authority\" target=\"_blank\">Argument From Authority<\/a>, but appeal to someone else who can do something, forcefully, bad to you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am really guilty of this, professionally;  we can&#8217;t do what you&#8217;re trying to do because $rule. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the political context, however, I think there&#8217;s something further.  You think <em>X<\/em> should be a violation of <em>Y<\/em> law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What do you want the enforcers to do about it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Carry it through to the ultimate conclusion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You&#8217;ve snitched;  you&#8217;ve called the cops, now what do you think the cops should do?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m wondering if taking that sort of response is really a bad tack&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things I&#8217;ve been kicking around today is where, logically, an appeal to authority who can use force falls. It&#8217;s not completely the logical Argument From Authority, but appeal to someone else who can do something, forcefully, bad to you. I am really guilty of this, professionally; we can&#8217;t do what you&#8217;re trying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scarred-brain-murmurings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}