Don’t shoot the messenger:
Bill Barr: The Truth About the Trump Indictment
https://www.thefp.com/p/bill-barr-the-truth-about-the-trump
In short, giving a pass to Trump might cause more harm to the rule of law than honestly applying the law to him. The rule of law won’t be restored by further degrading the rule of law. As Andrew McCarthy pithily observed: “The fix for a two-tiered justice system is not equal injustice under the law.”
What about the passes that have already been given? I wasn’t aware that we had ‘rule of law’ based on historical context. Thought it was just arbitrarily defined to virtue signal such. Bill Barr seems about as trustworthy and virtuous as Ed Gein. Not any different from the rest of the talking heads.
#notshootingthemessenger
Your logic lesson for today:
The genetic fallacy is the act of rejecting or accepting an argument on the basis of its origin rather than its content. Under the genetic fallacy, we judge a claim by paying too much attention to its source or history, even though this criticism is irrelevant to the truth of the claim.
If you understand the genetic fallacy you should realize that calling the originator of the argument a name is insufficient to refute the argument.
The solution is to hold all malefactors responsible; not to allow all of them to individually evade responsibility by pointing to the crimes of each other and claim that the crimes of the other guy or gal were worse.
