Fallacy of Petition of Principle

Roberto da Silva Rocha, university professor and political scientist

Fallacy of Petition of Principle

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If you want to talk about politics as if it were political or sociological analysis without using theories and rules for building analytical models, don't invite me, especially with people without ethics and education.

Soon it descends to cursing and disqualification of the interlocutor. Calling a person stupid, a thief, corrupt does not disqualify the arguments, even a liar tells the truth when he declares himself a liar, therefore, dumb people can eventually have moments of genius, intelligent people can have moments of intellectual block, dishonest people they are also entitled to an honest and true opinion, so it is the argument that needs to be disqualified, not the speaker, the interlocutor, the speaker, ad hominem criticism does not replace ad rem criticism.

I do not discuss ideological issues because there is no theoretical support in Sociology, Anthropology, Hermeneutics, Philosophy, it is the terrain of stupidity and the war of opinion position of Antônio Gramsci, I would need about 20 pages to explain the war of words that the communists developed in this defeat in the real camp of communism, even changing the names to socialism, to progressivism, are just words like the dictionary of political correctness, which George Orwell had already anticipated in his books Animal Farm and in 1984.

An important intellectual who calls himself a political scientist, said that two sophistry are laws, they are no longer just a sophistical cast, one of them is that two democracies never went to war, the first sophistry, the second is that if all countries join NATO they will never there will be more wars; I must say that NATO is not an organization, it is a set of colonies in the most bellicose country today, it has waged non-stop wars for the last 222 years, non-stop, in peacetime it occupies 119 military bases in Germany and 120 military bases in Japan , having 450 military bases in Germany, more than 950 in the whole world, if this is to make peace, this armed peace costs 800 billion dollars just in US spending, continuing the line of arguments, the US destroyed Vietnam, the Cambodia, Laos, Korea, Yugoslavia, Lebanon, Libya, Iraq, so if one democracy does not make war on another the largest democracy in the world alone constitutes the greatest threat to world peace today.

Roberto da Silva Rocha, professor universitário e cientista político