3 4 9R e f u t a t i o n b y P a r a l l e l R e a s o n i n gNOTE
(^1) Stephen Colbert, I Am America (And So Can You!) (New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2007), 198.
- Buses use more gas than cars, so the city cannot reduce gas consumption
by providing more buses. - Boxing can’t be very bad, since so many people like it.
- This war is just, for to say otherwise in public would be to aid our
enemies. - If you don’t buy the most expensive shoes, you buy cheap ones. You don’t
want cheap shoes. So you should buy the most expensive shoes. - I’d rather be smart than strong, so I am going to quit exercising and spend
all day in the library. - You don’t want to be this murderer’s next victim, so you had better
convict her and send her to prison where she can’t hurt you. - If it weren’t for America, these refugees would have nowhere to go; so
they should adopt the American way of life and give up their old culture. - You can’t be right, because, if the answer were that obvious, someone
would have thought of it before.
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