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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

Ah, argument from nature. Word to the wise: I used to find that fallacy compelling too, until I realized I with picking and choosing which parts of "nature" sounded right to me.

Kropotkin did it, and so do the momfluencers, and manosphere talking heads,. Even though they have widely contradictory takes.

It's not a good pillar for reason. It's another misty ideology, that only obscures your sources.