[9fans] Inferno: CNN.com - House votes for do-not-call registry - Sep. 25, 2003 (fwd)

[9fans] Inferno: CNN.com - House votes for do-not-call registry - Sep. 25, 2003 (fwd)

[Jim Choate]

"50 million Americans can't be wrong." Let's see, there are 300M
Americans...this is a logical flaw, an appeal to the majority when in fact
it isn't even a majority.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/09/25/congress.no.call/index.html

Now let me make this clear I support the do-not-call list, in fact I
believe it should be the defacto and people should have to sign up to be
called, not the other way around. Such an approach would resolve the
'unsolicted' issues as well.

As usual we have the cart in front of the horse.


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Re: [9fans] Inferno: CNN.com - House votes for do-not-call registry - Sep. 25,

[Skip Tavakkolian]

> "50 million Americans can't be wrong." Let's see, there are 300M
> Americans...this is a logical flaw, an appeal to the majority when in fact
> it isn't even a majority.

Quickly: how many people voted for GW in the last election (not counting
the deciding 7 votes in the Supreme Court)?

Re: [9fans] Inferno: CNN.com - House votes for do-not-call registry

[Douglas A. Gwyn]

Jim Choate wrote:
> "50 million Americans can't be wrong." Let's see, there are 300M
> Americans...this is a logical flaw, an appeal to the majority when in fact
> it isn't even a majority.

Nobody (except you) even thought they were claiming that
it was a majority.  But 50 million Americans signing up
in advance indicates that there is a tremendous problem
that people are happy to see a fix for.