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Exaclty right!!! China is just a prostitute to the Western world, it has bastardised itself and achieved some initial benifits, but these wont continue. As happens with all prostitutes, they are replaced when they cease to serve any benifit to the user. Economics with China, is like "trading...

Actually China had the largest army in the world at the time, and it was useless. If you read anything about war, you would realise numbers confer little advantage. It is the quality and mind of the troop that matters, along with the technology to support them. Germany was superior in all...

Actually Hitler did learn from the past, if you read his work you would realsie he learnt from the mistakes of the Habsburg Monarchy, and Bismarck and the Kaiser and many more. He was actually very well learned in the past and its mistakes, and you cant say that because he invaded Russia he had...

Actually he planned to kill the inferior races from the beginning, the beginning being, around 1911, his Vienna Period, when the Jewish question first occured to him. The sucess of the German people could only be achieved through the extermination of the Jewish and Marxist plague, as he wrote in...

This criticism of the Allies advance is entirely unjustified. There were many reasons for their comparatively slow advance. Such as: 1. There supply lines were much longer and drawn out then those of the USSR. It could take as long as four months for equipment to reach France from America, and...

Yeh I can infer what he meant through appeal to the majority, but I was just saying according to this site, and I must say it was a very good site, it doesnt exist. There is appeal to Belief, and appeal to tradition.There were brief explanations of the ideas in many places as well before...

Your opening lines are once again evidence of Ad Hominem, and are rendered invalid. We can do without the swearing thanks. Did I compare low end products with high end products? I compared clothing and meat, never mentioned plastic toys etc. and hence your statement would be use of the straw...

For all those who would like more information on this typhoon in relation to hurricane Katrina and Rita visit Wikipedia, or other assorted sites. Hurricane Katrina and Rita were category five storms, compared to talim, which was category two when it hit the land. Both Katrina and Rita hit...

Im simply arguing that they wont be the pre eminent powers because its not true. America will be the only power as it is now, at least for the near future. The world is in such a state now that America can exist as the Only superpower for millenia. Lets not forget how powerful Rome was and how...

Once again lets debate using logic. This is all evidence of using the straw man and is rendered invalid. However I will adress it for you anyway as its pretty short. Did I say it could "nuke the rest of the world to hell and its own economy can internally provide for itself with no noticeable...

Can I just say before I start that Not so bright, is appearing to be the brightest person here so far, me excluded of course(no arrogance intended). Please dont attack me but rather the argument if you can, as your opening is Ad Hominem and doesnt further your argument. imports dont have to...

I asked this in a comment, but I believe this may be more effective. What do people think of Jack Kerouac's work? Do people like his work, and spontaneous prose in particular, or do they hate it? In particular what do people think of On The Road?

Drewgcn gave a link to a very good site which discusses fallacies. After reading this site though I had some problems with the comments here. An appeal to authority can only exist as a fallacy if the authority isnt a legitimate expert in the field. John The Great mentioned St. Augustine and...

The couple that come to mind immediately are Socrates from Plato's symposium because of his incredible ability to argue and Alexander from Arrian's Campaigns of Alexander because he's such an incredible being. I'd probably have to give Jesus from the bible a mention as well. Im surprised...