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this is affirming the consequent. "liking bad things -> you are bad" might be true, but it does not imply "bad person liking thing -> thing is bad".

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> but it does not imply "bad person liking thing -> thing is bad".

It does imply this if it's in the exact context of the Gestapo and Stasi and surveillance technology.

Weird, I didn't make a value judgment, I had only pointed out the biting irony of the situation at hand. Any assumption you've made from my post is just that: an assumption.

the irony kinda depends on the value judgment though, at least under my reading. if the israelis invented a delicious new candy, would it be ironic that nazis would have enjoyed it? or slightly less ridiculous: the nazis would certainly have loved to have a rifle like the galil. is that ironic?

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