Owning the young mind

[Skybird]

Hm, Sorry, Rockstar: Veto!


https://michaelsherlockauthor.wordpr...pher-hitchens/

The fallacy of false cause occurs whenever the link between premise and conclusion
depends on some imagined causal connection that probably does not exist.


Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot were all non-figure skaters. Therefore we can conclude that not being a figure skater causes a person to commit atrocities.


None of these three dictators believed in the existence of leprechauns, hence the lack of belief in leprechauns causes people to commit atrocities.

Correlation or synchronicity, and causality, are different things.

[Rockstar]

The criminally minded person group or herd will always try to find a way to absolve themselves of responsibility for their own actions. They'll use religion, [edit: wether their religion] is divine beliefs, politics, environment, science, race, what ever you name it they'll use it.

A dictator may not believe in a divine being but he will have a religion something that he ascribes supreme importance too and use it to justify his murderous actions.

Religion: a pursuit or interest to which someone ascribes supreme importance

[Skybird]

Still, fallacy of false cause.


I recomemnd to read the full text I linked, it has more points than just this one that I picked.