Ohio will pay Mr. Williams $65,000, according to The Post.
Ohio paid Mr. Germano $72,100 in 2010.
We're all anxiously awaiting the middle of April when you make your tax-returns public as well...
There have been entire threads or significant portions of threads devoted to coach and administrator salaries that didn't engender spiteful backlashes against people who supplied information.
I think the issue most have is that you're pointing out low-paid administrators or coaches. It's one thing to talk about Solich or Schaus making $200,000+....it's another to talk about our play-by-play guy making $30,000.
Would it have been ridiculous to have had more public scrutiny over lower-level employees in the months or years prior to Rob Andrey embezzling money from the department?
My statement about Rob Andrey would only have been a red herring if it had been irrelevant to bobcat72's statement, quoted above. He offered no reason why disseminating any salary information was bad, but he implied that people in the department who make $200,000 and up are fair objects of such scrutiny, while people making $30,000 are not. Rejection without reasoning is known as an
argument of dismissal. Arguing that "most" people have an "issue" with something constitutes an
appeal to widespread belief. Both are fallacies. I raised the Andrey case as an example of why the public paying attention to who earns what to do what at the sub-$200,000 level could be beneficial. It's not a perfect example, but it's not irrelevant, especially given my longstanding position that sunshine discourages mold, figuratively speaking.
Athens Block's first statement, quoted above - the one about me posting my tax returns - was
ad hominem needling, because it insulted the messenger instead of contesting the message.
Him accusing me of making a red herring argument, by cherry-picking my statement about Andrey while ignoring the bulk of that post, was
argument by selective reading.
His combination of attacks, ridicule and lack of any assertion about his own position is known as
failure to state.
So, in conclusion, here's the tally of logical fallacies:
Athens Block -
3 (
ad hominem needling, argument by selective reading, failure to state)
bobcat72 -
2 (
argument of dismissal, appeal to widespread belief)
PutnamField -
0
Last Edited: 1/27/2012 11:26:14 PM by PutnamField