Point: Your Argument Isn’t Supported in the Data<\/b><\/p>\n
Mark, the point you\u2019re trying to make here is very interesting, but the data just doesn\u2019t support it. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates that nearly 41 thousand Americans died as a result of motor vehicle crashes in 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n Meanwhile, curtains\u2014which you claim are \u201cfar more dangerous than automobiles in every conceivable way\u201d\u2014don\u2019t appear at all in any list of major causes of death I\u2019ve been able to find. I did find an article from NPR claiming there were around two hundred strangulation deaths by curtains over a period of twenty odd years, but that only works out to about ten a year, a far cry from making curtains \u201ccloth assassins, thirsting for the taste of human blood.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n I\u2019m just really curious how you came to the conclusion that curtains are so dangerous and what evidence you\u2019re relying on.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Counterpoint: I Know So Many More Latin Phrases than You<\/b><\/p>\n Veni, vidi, vici. Cogito ergo sum. Caveat emptor. Carthago delenda est.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n I have no doubt that you\u2019re currently scratching your head wondering what in the world I could be saying right now. I wouldn\u2019t expect an intellectual plebeian like you to understand the <\/span>sine qua non <\/span><\/i>of my argument nor all the <\/span>ad hoc <\/span><\/i>subtleties of my language. It seems to me you still have a highly <\/span>a posteriori <\/span><\/i>frame of mind. But <\/span>fiat justitia ruat caelum<\/span><\/i>, nevertheless.<\/span><\/p>\n In this case, as in all others, we must ask ourselves: <\/span>Cui bono<\/span><\/i>? The answer to that, my dear friend, is a <\/span>de facto<\/span><\/i> sort of a <\/span>memento mori<\/span><\/i>, and no <\/span>coitus interruptus <\/span><\/i>is going to change that. <\/span>Per aspera ad astra<\/span><\/i>, whether you like it or not.<\/span><\/p>\n The fact is that my claim about curtains killing more people from cars is not only true, but <\/span>correctus maximus in excelsis<\/span><\/i>. This is true <\/span>ipso facto<\/span><\/i>, as well as <\/span>per se<\/span><\/i>, and even <\/span>ad infinitum<\/span><\/i>, though you may not want to admit it. Your argument, however, is thoroughly <\/span>casus belli<\/span><\/i>, to say the least. My <\/span>supremus cranius <\/span><\/i>has once again brought me out on top, as I knew from the <\/span>veritus startus<\/span><\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n I can see you\u2019re becoming quite the <\/span>habeas corpus<\/span><\/i> as you realize how thoroughly <\/span>in loco dementis <\/span><\/i>I\u2019ve got you. Well, my friend, you must always remember to <\/span>aut Caesar aut nihil<\/span><\/i>, even if at times you may feel a bit <\/span>faux pas<\/span><\/i>. I mean <\/span>tabula rasa.<\/span><\/i> Yeah.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It seems to me you still have a highly a posteriori frame of mind. But fiat justitia ruat caelum, nevertheless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2089,"featured_media":7013,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2089"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7014,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7012\/revisions\/7014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}