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Via Wonkette, this awesomely disingenuous ad from Big Oil:
"They call it pollution. We call it life."
Jess and I were having a hard time pinning this one down, fallacy-wise, but we think it's the fallacy of composition: if some carbon dioxide is good, lots of carbon dioxide will be awesome!
I'd like to suggest some more ads for the Competitive Enterprise Institute to create:
They call it a bloodbath; we call it life
They call it a flood; we call it a warm bath
They call it ventricular tachycardia; we call it our hearts going pitter-pat
"They call it pollution. We call it life."
Jess and I were having a hard time pinning this one down, fallacy-wise, but we think it's the fallacy of composition: if some carbon dioxide is good, lots of carbon dioxide will be awesome!
I'd like to suggest some more ads for the Competitive Enterprise Institute to create:
They call it a bloodbath; we call it life
They call it a flood; we call it a warm bath
They call it ventricular tachycardia; we call it our hearts going pitter-pat
posted by Laura at 4:08 PM
4 Comments:
I heard that ad on NPR yesterday and laughed my ass off! Awesome.
They call it rape, we call it kink!
They call it battery, we call it roughhousing!
They call it grand theft auto, we call it a test drive!
Things are only harmful if they're FRACTALLY harmful. It has to be bad in tiny quantities, or it's not bad at all.
It's too bad that shit doesn't have a lobby because the shit version of this commercial would be hilarious.
Hmm, yes. They call it sewage -- we call it fertilizer!
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