Create Account


Board Performance Issues We are aware of performance issues on the board and are working to resolve them! The board may be intermittently unavailable during this time. (May 07) x


The Jungle is self-supported by showing advertisements via Google Adsense.
Please consider disabling your advertisement-blocking plugin on the Jungle to help support the site and let us grow!
We also show significantly less advertisements to registered users, so create your account to benefit from this!
Questions or concerns about this ad? Take a screenshot and comment in the thread. We do value your feedback.
House Dems move to eliminate Electoral College, limit presidential pardon power

#61
(This post was last modified: 01-11-2019, 11:45 AM by Lucky2Last.)

If you spent half as much time being critical of your own posts as you did trying to win an argument, you might contribute something productive to these conversations. If I'm being as generous as possible, you seem incapable of seeing how poorly you construct your arguments. From a logical fallacy perspective, you literally just "begged the question." Even though you had a question mark at the end of the sentence, it's a premise you are using to support your conclusion (while putting the onus on me to answer something to which I've already objected). I even rephrased it for you so you could see it more clearly.

You are assuming the following to be true: that one person, one vote is the most fair form of electing a President (again, the objection to this has already been raised by multiple posters). While it may seem like a given, it isn't. You are recommending we change an entire system because a truth seems self-evident to you, yet you continually gloss over the "tyranny of the majority" argument made not only by the posters on this forum, but the framers of the constitution, too. It's your opinion (supported by zero evidence, btw) that a popular vote would be superior, and you don't care that it favors a particular political bent because you think the rest of the country will adapt, even though it's mathematically unlikely. Instead of making a logical argument to support your opinion, you do exactly what I called you out for doing in my first post: You argue in bad faith. You disguise the main argument by talking about anything else that's related (e.g. population size and voter education). Stick to the argument.
Reply

We show less advertisements to registered users. Accounts are free; join today!



Messages In This Thread
RE: House Dems move to eliminate Electoral College, limit presidential pardon power - by Lucky2Last - 01-11-2019, 11:44 AM



Users browsing this thread:
2 Guest(s)

The Jungle is self-supported by showing advertisements via Google Adsense.
Please consider disabling your advertisement-blocking plugin on the Jungle to help support the site and let us grow!
We also show less advertisements to registered users, so create your account to benefit from this!
Questions or concerns about this ad? Take a screenshot and comment in the thread. We do value your feedback.


ABOUT US
The Jungle Forums is the Jaguars' biggest fan message board. Talking about the Jags since 2006, the Jungle was the team-endorsed home of all things Jaguars.

Since 2017, the Jungle is now independent of the team but still run by the same crew. We are here to support and discuss all things Jaguars and all things Duval!