You appear to be deliberately misinterpreting the point I made. You made a claim to not buying arguments made from authority and I pointed out that you do buy some arguments made from authority. You do so every time you listen to your doctor's advice regarding your healh. Your claim about not buying arguments made from authority is false.
Your understanding of the argumentative fallacy of the false appeal to authority is false. Furthermore your conclusion about the point I made is false.
Consider this. Experts sometimes get things wrong. Their consensus opinions though are the best we can go by since they have, by definition, the most knowledge on a particular subject. So non experts are left with the cruel reality that even though expert opinions are the best available on a given subject that opinion could still be wrong. In any event it is not an argumentative fallacy to cite experts and that is what I said.
so this is a flagged comment near the top, from the half I can read I can only assume I too would disagree with the poster, but is it really necessary to "protect" me from this information? To the extent that that it gets many downvotes (greyed out) it seems the audience does not need protection, so why censor?
I probably would prefer the comment to just state "glagged" but in a way that I can click it to reveal the flagged message...
thanks for pointing this out, this is not evident on its own... many discussion platforms have some form of censorship so it is not unnatural to assume an unclickable "flagged" to be censored.
