Know_more_carry_less

Know_more_carry_less t1_jd120i9 wrote

Reply to comment by lil_splooter in Moving to Waterville? by lil_splooter

I’m a former Waterville cop and still live in the area. The south end is a mixture of low and middle class blue collar folks. 99.9% are great people who work hard, take care of their families, and look out for their neighbors. There isn’t a street in the city that I wouldn’t let my own mother live on.

Those that think of the south end as some crime ridden hell hole are idiots that have clearly never lived outside of Maine.

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Know_more_carry_less t1_j1vzvww wrote

>So you're saying that we should only have mines in countries too poor to say no? Because that's the end point of this kind of thinking.

Strawman Logical Fallacy - “A straw man fallacy occurs when someone takes another person’s argument or point, distorts it or exaggerates it in some kind of extreme way, and then attacks the extreme distortion, as if that is really the claim the first person is making.

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Know_more_carry_less t1_j02x9hc wrote

I first visited Lubec after a big storm came through. It had knocked the roof off of a wharf shed. The roof then floated the quarter mile over to the Canadian island there (the name eludes me).

Apparently “finders keepers” is established maritime law as the Canadians planted a Canadian and Jolly Roger flags on the shed roof, refusing to give it back. Half the town of Lubec couldn’t care less, the other half was ready to go to war and launch some kind of midnight raid like Washington crossing the Delaware.

Fun town, Lubec. Can’t wait to get back up there.

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