Elon Musk is back on his 'Thai cave diver is a pedo' business again 😞

The logic is that there is no connection between the diver and the child sex industry, so why did you bring it up? Not only that, but you claimed that the child sex “industry” in Thailand is “huge, huge”, as though it rivals any actual industry there; as though, like Musk, you thought that it would be a reasonable thing to suppose that the only reason anyone would expatriate there would be for the child sex. This is not a reasonable thing to suppose.

It is an unreasonable thing to attack someone because of this supposition; if Musk had any information on it, as a responsible citizen he would have shared it with the relevant authorities, and then shut up about it so as to not to compromise the investigation. If, on the other hand, this twitter attack is just what it looks like, a billionaire without an appreciation of how much his spite can hurt ordinary people, then it is an unreasonable thing to support his attack by pretending that it might be reasonable. It is not.

Before one makes any appeals to logic, it really, really behooves one to check one’s own logic.

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