So here’s the scoop. Megan Fox is pissed at Michael Bay because Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen is all action and no acting. Bay’s response: “She says some very ridiculous things because she’s 23 years old, and she still has a lot of growing up to do.”
One might look at this and say “So what?” We all know both Megan Fox and Michael Bay are always in the spotlight based on their visual merits and not their intellectual ones (Bay blowing stuff up, Fox blowing…well…never mind, maybe that’s just my imagination). But there’s a serious logical fallacy playing itself out in this confrontation – appeal to age.
I understand they aren’t arguing about something that has any real value, but still – when someone claims another person is wrong, or just shuns them away, because they think their own age makes them more authoritative on a claim – it is an insult to human reason.
I once had a similar experience. I was arguing with a professor of mine about the existence of God. Her arguing for, me arguing against. As I pushed her on the subject I must have struck a mental brick wall, one which she would let no one beyond. She knew I had her back against that wall and so she ended the argument by saying that since she was older she was more likely to be right.
Of course, I called her out on her appeal to age. Unfortunately, she just remained silent, which continued into an agonizingly long awkward silence…
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Which is why I often say I do not respect elders. Its one of those mantras like “drugs are bad, mkay” that needs to be done away with and considered more closely. Megan Fox still retains her beauty though.