gbaji wrote:
Jophiel wrote:
The only "real issue" is the massive overreaction of school and police that arrested a kid for a clock. One that they knew was a clock and no one at all thought it was a bomb even if it was a "jumble".
And you're still leaving out the key phrase "looked like".
In the same sense that numerous things "look like" a bomb. He
ll, as previously noted, people thought a lunchbox "looked like" a bomb to the point that they actually reacted as though it was a bomb. Should we arrest every student with a lunchbox?
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It was a device that, if found unattended, someone would reasonably mistake for a bomb
As evidenced by its zero-for-five record in making people think it was a bomb. You and I apparently own different dictionaries when looking up the word "reasonable". You know what would be great evidence that someone would reasonably mistake this for a bomb? Someone mistaking it for a bomb.
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That is what he was arrested for
So he was arrested for something
that's not a crime? And you have no problem with that. Well, that's interesting.
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As opposed to the far more massive overreaction...
Did anyone get arrested when this kid got some new toys? Was anyone cuffed? Printed? Pressed to give a false confession?
No? Well, then... no. Not "as opposed to" because the two reactions are leagues apart and trying to compare them to justify the reaction of the school and police is just pathetic.
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You're the one who started linking to pictures of kit clocks to try to prove how normal his was (and by extension how unreasonable the cops were), and now that that's backfired
Backfired? Oh, you must think I'm really upset that you keep driving to the well of Fallacy of Appeal to Popularity and drawing out big buckets of "Everyone agrees with ME!!!" Sh
it, man, I'm sorry. I never took the time to say that I was ignoring your fallacious arguments. That one's on me.
No, it still looks like a clock. Also, I linked to a picture of a kit clock to show that it actually looks
more "bomb like" (scary wires!) and has the added benefit of being a kit so people like you stop flipping out over how non-sciencey his clock was. Try and keep up.
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The difference is that I'm not discounting the possibility
"I'm just asking questions, man!"
Edited, Sep 29th 2015 3:19am by Jophiel