This has always bothered me, because I can think of instance where bad behaviors can definetly lead to worst behaviors. The classic, if you smoke pot you’ll use harder drugs, is clearly not true in itself. Weed doesn’t cause you to want to do harder drugs, but since weed is illegal in a lot of places, it could expose you to hard drugs and you could become a user. I understand that this is not always the case, but I’d like to better understand why this is considered a fallacy when it could be true sometimes.
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I need a car for work. One thing leads to another, and soon enough I’ll have five cars and be super in debt. Thus, I should not buy a car.
That’s a clearly absurd application of the argument. Such absurdity shows that the logic is invalid through argumentum ad absurdum.
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