Showing posts with label fallacy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fallacy. Show all posts

Thursday, January 10, 2013

Oh, Kathy Lee

And now for something a little frivolous.  A talk radio host was revisiting the uproar over Kathy Lee Gifford allegedly implying something about parents out there who have kids who get into trouble.

Who hasn't failed in their parental obligations?  I have.  How much of a role this has played in our kids' troubles I don't know, but our children are bound to be hindered by our failings.  Many parents know that they can think they are succeeding as one child does well, while the next child stumbles.  Parents are human, and even if there is something we could be doing better, we often don't know what that is.

However...


There seems to be this idea that if someone is offended you must have said or done something wrong.  That's a fallacy on the face of it.  Let's look at it logically: