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A Look At Joe Biden's Tech Voting Record
Aviran brings us an analysis of Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Joe Biden's voting record on technology issues. CNet breaks down the issues by category and provides details on the tech-related legislation he's introduced in the past several years. Biden received a score of 37.5% on CNet's 2006 technology voter guide. We've discussed the technology stances of McCain and Obama in the past.
There is an unfortunate tendency in some people to interpret every statement in an absolute sense. Here, the statement "old people are incapable of innovation" is interpreted as "all old people are incapable of innovation". This error is the cause of many ridiculous arguments, since the speaker usually means "most" rather than "all", as he is stating a bias, not an absolute universal truth. It seems to be caused by the extension of the mind projection fallacy to actually assume that everyone else commits this same fallacy all the time! Please, correct your erroneous defaults and henceforth assume "most" instead of "all". When you do this, you'll understand that giving a counterexample only invalidates universal statements while having very little effect on bias, and that your statement is irritating (due to the sudden need to clarify what should not have needed clarification) rather than insightful.