NoMeansYes wrote:I guess you wouldn't cross a road then? Because you know someone did that once and died. Yeah it's unfortunate but these events make the news because of their rarity. If they happened every day nobody would make anything of it.
I only reply to this because the conclusion is reached by using the fallacy of
reductio ad absurdum or reduction to absurdity. There are 23 fallacies in logic and this one is most often used.
First, the young people here are not chickens,
Two, they are not crossing the road.
So the connection fails and so does the logic of the syllogism.
I might refer the reader to my above remarks that these are not "one off" cases but examples only of literally hundreds of injured or missing young people each year.
If your new contact invites you for dinner then, Please make sure you are not it.
Above all folks, err on the side of safety.