Most-Illogical Arguments You've Ever Heard

[Midnight Seeker 302]

This old lass I gave a couple of lifts to (public transport does not exist in my neck of the woods). She's a bit of a space cadet. I went to school with her daughter. Anyway, I picked her up one day, and she tells me that she's found her calling. She's a Light-worker.

Now, I am agnostic, so I really am not one to judge anyone else's spiritual views. She tells me she's a spiritual healer, I say fair enough. She tells me that she worships the Goddess Freya, I say cool beans.

Then she tell me how all disease isn't what we think it is. All disease is is a symptom that something else is wrong.

Some of you might be nodding your heads or rubbing your chin. Let me dash your hopes that her views where logical.

She told me that Cancer was a form of self hatred.

Yeah. . . she told me that, and insisted that we all give ourselves disease and allow ourselves to suffer injury.

I'm very drunk right now. Who do you think has a better grasp of reality between me and her?

[Virgil 685]

I recall a statement that Comedian Lewis Black once overheard from a 20 something woman, "I would have stayed in college if it weren't for my horse."  Keep in mind this was long before MLP FiM. So yeah....  

[Guest]

Basically, if you voice your opinion, it's mean and you're not allowed to say it/do it.

 

Yes, I'm serious. People get THAT butthurt over things.

[N.W. 3,619]

"Because it's my opinion, it's fact"

Edited April 10, 2014 by The Engineer

[Glitterheart 64]

"Homosexuality is a myth.  No one can be homosexual because no one is born with both sets of genitals."  (A lot of fundies REALLY don't seem to understand what the word "homosexual" means.  Seriously, this one was within the last couple years.)

 

"Lesbians don't exist because women have no interest in sex."  (Also within the last few years.  On an MRA blog, as you might imagine.)

 

I'm sure I'll be able to think of others a little later.

[Guest90210 3,569]

"The tide goes in. The tide goes out. You can't explain that" - Bill O Reilly

[Lagom 204]

There was once a guy that said '' We're better at English than the Chinese, because it lies in the genes '' and (this is not a argument but more of an test) when people try to make a test to see if you were gay by causing as much pain as possible to one another.

[Moss 95]

My friend believes without a doubt that the reason that japan attacked america was because the british king during the royal visit to japan said something along the lines of "you have an island and you need to protect it",and it shook up the emperor and caused the bombing of pearl harbour.I even searched up exactly what he asked and could find nothing even remotely about it.

[MagicalStarRain 599]

I was eating breakfast at school and I asked one of my teachers for a pass.  The following conversation occurred:

 

MSR:  Hey, can I please get a pass?

Teacher:  No.

MSR:  Why not?

Teacher:  I don't have my pen on me.

MSR:  You can borrow my pen.

Teacher:  NO! Go to class!

MSR:  Alright, alright, fine.  *walks toward the door*  Don't forget your pen next time!

[Clockwork Chaos 219]

anything with any remotely religious or spiritual connotations.

[NomDeSpite 452]

two spectacularly and contemptibly illogical pro-choice arguments.

 

"Life begins when the parents decide it does." the words of MSNBC television personality Melissa Harris-Perry. Yes, let's throw biology, the study of living things, completely out the window in an attempt to determine when life begins. Personal feelings 1, Science 0.

 

And yes, she really did say that.

 

When people who support abortion say: "My body, my choice". Your body has four eyes, four hands, twenty fingers and two stomachs? That's unbelievable! Call the 6 o'clock news! Call the medical journals! Call Ripley's Believe It Or Not! You're really something else! (and that's not a compliment, by the way).

[PsychedelicPony 440]

1. God exists because the Bible says so

 

2. Alternatively the Bible is true because it is the word of God

[Otter 1,942]

The argument that the Bible is true because God said so because God never lies because God said so because God never lies because God said so...

[PsychedelicPony 440]

two spectacularly and contemptibly illogical pro-choice arguments.

 

"Life begins when the parents decide it does." the words of MSNBC television personality Melissa Harris-Perry. Yes, let's throw biology, the study of living things, completely out the window in an attempt to determine when life begins. Personal feelings 1, Science 0.

 

And yes, she really did say that.

 

When people who support abortion say: "My body, my choice". Your body has four eyes, four hands, twenty fingers and two stomachs? That's unbelievable! Call the 6 o'clock news! Call the medical journals! Call Ripley's Believe It Or Not! You're really something else! (and that's not a compliment, by the way).

 

Idk if you are pro-choice or pro-life (the latter seems more likely). I want you to evaluate the argument of "My body, my choice." This argument isn't meant for a literal word for word interpretation, it comes as the response to thousands and thousands of years of patriarchy. Traditionally, woman have been kept as second class citizens, and before that at the same level as livestock. The reason this debate is important is because it gives a woman the right to choose. People seem to think "life begins at conception," but it truly doesn't life actually doesn't exist until birth, but I agree there should be a restriction at a point. When a pro-life person yells at a poor woman who has already made the tough decision to get an abortion (whether it be because of rape, the safety of the woman, not wanting a baby to come into financial despair from herself) "you are a baby killer, and so are the abortionists" you realize the real weight of your actions. 

 

The real argument is "I am a woman, I have a right to choose and it's my right alone"

 

I don't understand why it is even an issue today, first of all the Supreme Court in Roe V. Wade said it was constitutional, second of all the majority of people who are against are doing it on a purely religious basis which shouldn't come into play in a country that has specific rule against religious intersection into law, and finally the final choice anyone has, YOU AREN'T FORCED TO GET AN ABORTION IF IT IS LEGAL, THE WHOLE POINT IS YOU HAVE A CHOICE.

[Moonbacon 384]

"Your a girl you aren't suppose to play video games your supposed to be in the kitchen making me a sandwich while i play video games". - some random cunt on a minecraft server.

 

Just... get the hell out.

 

"Aren't curly haired people stupid and have autism?" - some retard at my school.

 

Gesh nice insult i am totally insulted and not being sarcastic at all.

 

"Isn't MLP forums basically facebook with my little pony?" - my mom when she asked about mlp forums.

 

Mom GET OUT!.

Edited April 12, 2014 by Moonbacon

[Revertz 159]

I overheard this when i joined a random skype call party that my friend added me too and i quote

 

IF YOU DON'T LIKE CHOCOLATE AND PEANUT BUTTER YOU HAVE NO SOUL! 

[Dattebayo 2,850]

I overheard this when i joined a random skype call party that my friend added me too and i quote

 

IF YOU DON'T LIKE CHOCOLATE AND PEANUT BUTTER YOU HAVE NO SOUL!

This isn't the "true.arguments" thread, friend. ;o

[Swirl 90]

"Being Christian = homophobic". -.- I get that some Christians are, but every Christian I know doesn't discriminate against gay people.

 

Also "video games being bad for you"...just ugh. I even wrote an essay that got an A on how video games were good.

 

"Cartoons only being for children"...Adventure Time has tons of freaky moments and sexual references, MLP is awesome as heck, Gravity Falls is full of secrets and mysteries kids don't understand...people who argue that are idiots.

 

"Everyone on the Internet is a paedophile"...my parents' favourite argument.

[Arctic Night 884]

"If you don't have time to do X, you must have time to do Y."

 

HAHAHAHA... No.

[GhostPony750 959]

The arguments that destroy my will to live is always this one:

Because this is the law.

It comes in many forms, and is absolutely everywhere. But omg, what a poor and stupid argument! The law was not written by god, just by humans, these corruptible things. And I actually think everyone can think with their brains properly, not only rely on something that's written. Sometimes I'm trying to debate about what's right to do, a moral debate, and someone come and say: "well, that's the law, you can't do anything about it.", and he won't even hear my arguments. That's like the poorest existing argument.

 

Oh and, another situation: I'm listening to music with my father in the car, when suddenly my mother put pop music. I tell her to ask us before changing music because it's pretty unrespectful, and here it comes: "Well, that's my car."

I felt like opening the door and jumping on the highway.

Edited April 13, 2014 by GhostPony750

[CT-1138 3,183]

-Evolution has not been observed.

 

Actually, yes it has. Its called the fossil record:

 

-Unfortunately, this way leads into Well, the fossil record is incomplete/the missing link has never been found.

 

Well, let's make an analogy here. This is the color spectrum:

 

Can you tell me at which point does blue end and green begin? You can't. If you could, it wouldn't be a spectrum. Evolution is the same way. It's ever continuous. There is no missing link. It doesn't exist. In fact, many scientists still debate what separates two species from each other.

[CT-1138 3,183]

Sorry to DP, but I thought up another one: 

 

-Banning X doesn't stop criminals.

 

Well no shrieking shit, Sherlock! Following this logic, why should we have speed limits? It doesn't stop speeders. Why should we have laws about drug use? It doesn't stop stoners. Criminals never follow laws, that's what makes them criminals. The idea is to have regulations in order to make it harder for criminals to have access to the banned item(s). Usually when I point this out, I either get a response telling me "Oh, don't b dumb!" or a long inarticulated rambling about something tangent to my point. 

[NomDeSpite 452]

-Evolution has not been observed. Actually, yes it has. Its called the fossil record:

To observe something is to see it happen with your own eyes. Standing in a dark room, turning the light on, and observing the room become illuminated.

All those skulls may possibly belong to beings that transformed into one another. But that conclusion, "these beings transformed into one another", is based not upon direct observation, but extrapolation, using the appearance of skulls to create a conclusion of what happened to them. So, what's illogical is your defense that "we've observed things evolving".

Edited April 18, 2014 by NomDeSpite

[Midnight Solace 5,132]

This has to be the most stupid thing I have ever heard...

"I'm not just going to dig through a thread to try to find a justification for an opinion that makes absolutely no sense."

[Dawnchaser 🌄 8,092]

Almost anything that passengers say

 

Weather is below minimas for our destination so we divert.

Passenger disembarking "Why did we divert? These things [aircraft] have Autoland"

...well, sure, this aircraft *can* have Autoland fitted, but doesn't ...I need to be trained to use Autoland ...and the airport needs to offer it as a facility. So if you want a pilot who isn't trained to use Autoland attempt to land an aircraft that doesn't have Autoland fitted into an airport that doesn't offer it, sure, why not, its only everyones life

 

Compressor blades in the front of the engine (the ones you see) are loose when the engines are off. Sometimes with the wind in the wrong direction the engine will windmill whilst on the ground. As the blades are loose (they become rigid once spinning) they clank.

Engine is windmilling and clanking whist passengers are getting on. Passenger "I'm an expert in gas turbines and those engines shouldn't be making that noise"

If I, as the Captain, was unhappy with the (normal) noise that the engines are making, would I be on the aircraft? and/or would there be an engineer investigating the noise?

 

Hey, they pay my wages

(Hmm, maybe these arent really "arguements")