/lit/ - Literature

>>15771222
This reminds me of Scott Adams talking about just how effective the persuasion tactic is of saying "because X" even X completely unrelated to what you're talking about. "Human life doesn't matter/is meaningless because [our lifetimes are minuscule compared to the time that the universe has existed for]/[our size is minuscule compared to the size of the planets and galaxies]/[we're just made of atoms and atoms we will become]/[I bought a sandwich today and it didn't taste good]/[there is so much evil in the world]/[everything we value is just a product of interactions of atoms]". Notice how none of the explanations after "because" are even remotely connected to the claim they try to justify yet it's awesome how much they seem to persuade people.