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Montreal shopping mall plays “Baby Shark” on repeat to prevent unhoused people from loittering (montreal.ctvnews.ca)

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 weeks ago

@Grimy You are relying on a rhetorical device called an essentialism: an assertion of fact without evidence, a claim asserted as established fact without supporting argument or proof. Put another way:

Things aren't true just because you say they are, no matter how sure you are.

Essentialism isn't merely poor forensics. It's very literally gotten millions of people killed.

We always want to make every effort to use good forensics in arguments.

I don't believe you actually KNOW the facts.