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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Again... your declaration of services being "objectively useless" does not actually make them so. It only means that YOU find them useless. If you'd take a step back, you might realize that you, me, and uncle Pete aren't the arbiters of what's useless for anyone but ourselves.
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So you find some objective usefulness in astrology? Any of the other divinatory practices? I have been careful to distinguish between objective and subjective usefulness.
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
The very fact that millions of people find them useful refutes your hypothesis that they are objectively and universally useless. I would suggest that "many people" should probably get over themselves. The world's full of people who find many different things more useful than many other people do.
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Yawn. See argumentum ad populum and/or argumentum ad numerum as logical fallacies.
Possibly, explain how you jumped from objective usefulness to "objectively and universally useless".
And how many of those "things" have proven objective usefulness? You may believe that ivermectin is a magic bullet for treating COVID-19, that smearing cow dung on your head will help cure baldness or consuming powdered rhinoceros horn will help with everything from cancer to gout. That does not imply any proven objective usefulness.