{"id":4429,"date":"2013-09-19T14:56:19","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T19:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4429"},"modified":"2013-09-19T15:04:17","modified_gmt":"2013-09-19T20:04:17","slug":"consistency-checking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4429","title":{"rendered":"Consistency checking"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Fig. 1: Not an inconsistency<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Those familiar with Reddit know that inconsistency memes are very popular.\u00c2\u00a0 This is because\u00c2\u00a0consistency checking\u00c2\u00a0is a dominant form of criticism.\u00c2\u00a0 You cannot, after all, be for one thing but against another similar thing.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s a contradiction.\u00c2\u00a0 A contradiction cannot be, and if you support the one but not the other, you’re a scumbag, or just daft.\u00c2\u00a0 So it does double duty: it challenges a view as untenable while characterizing the holder of the view as dishonest, or an idiot.<\/p>\n

There is nothing wrong with that, of course.\u00c2\u00a0 Provided that the inconsistency is a real one.\u00c2\u00a0 So many inconsistencies aren’t.<\/p>\n

Here, I think, is a\u00c2\u00a0real one:
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This at least shows that the 2nd Amendment advocates featured have to show a difference between rights of the 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th amendment rights and 2nd Amendment rights. This probably isn’t impossible, but it’s not obvious either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Those familiar with Reddit know that inconsistency memes are very popular.\u00c2\u00a0 This is because\u00c2\u00a0consistency checking\u00c2\u00a0is a dominant form of criticism.\u00c2\u00a0 You cannot, after all, be for one thing but against another similar thing.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s a contradiction.\u00c2\u00a0 A contradiction cannot be, and if you support the one but not the other, you’re a scumbag, or just … Continue reading Consistency checking<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1742,478,1743,476,1741],"class_list":["post-4429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-arguments-from-inconsistency","tag-daily-show","tag-gun-rights","tag-jon-stewart","tag-second-amendment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4429"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4432,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4429\/revisions\/4432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}