An actual conversation in my house:

// March 4th, 2010 // funny, philosophizing

Me: You should pet Starbuck [the cat]. She likes you.

MW: Starbuck’s a freak. Only freaks like me.

Me: That means I’m a freak. Everyone here is a freak. Except Bindo [the other cat]. He doesn’t like you. So he must be the normal one. [Note-- Bindo is probably the least normal cat I've owned.]

MW: Ha.

Me: This is actually an interesting logical problem. Can you spot the error in my conclusion?

MW: A syllogism. You equated being “n0t a freak” with being normal?

Me: It was even before that. I said, Only freaks like you. Bindo doesn’t like you. Therefore he is not a freak. But that logic is fallacious. Because I said only freaks like you. I didn’t say all freaks like you. So it is entirely possible that Bindo is within another category of freaks who don’t like you. My statement actually did not rule that out. Damn, they should teach this stuff in high schools. Then there wouldn’t be so many stupid people on the internet thinking they’re making arguments.

MW: They don’t want to teach people to think.

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Yeah. That’s us!