Talk:Fallacy of the single cause

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The line about the cause of september eleventh attacks and how it is a prominent topic of disccusion that may contain this fallacy is just not a good point. The word may, without citations renders it useless. Also its an incorrect argument in the first place, the cause of the attacks were clearly the actions of the nineteen individuals involved. They caused the attack, and the individuals aboard the flight that crashed into the ground caused that portion of the plan to fail. The reasons why the attacks happened, ie: Muslim extremism, a desire for a specific cultural group to retain their culture without corruption, the belief that America and perhaps NATO and/or the UN is out to steal oil, vengeance etc. Is not the cause, it is the reason why. For example suppose I am angry at a man for sleeping with my wife and kill him by shooting him. The cause of his death is me shooting him, not me being angry at him for sleeping with my wife, that was the reason why I shot him. But the cause of death was gunshot, we would not say that his death was caused by me being angry at him. This vagueness over the difference between the reason why a theoretical person did something and the cause of an event seems to me to be a logical fallacy itself, I am not sure about that though. The reason why I am removing this mention is the phrases mentioned above, the may and the lack of citations which might be ok for a while under the most innocuos circumstances, but the phrase prominent topic of discussion means that its controversial (since people rarely discuss at length a topic that everybody is in full agreement with) and therefore should always have citations.Colin 8 21:08, 26 March 2007 (UTC)