Originally posted by cybotron+Jun 29 2004, 03:43 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (cybotron @ Jun 29 2004, 03:43 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin--fafner@Jun 30 2004, 04:23 AM
What you say is pertinent Cybotron, but the problem is that I and Jeffbert don't think the way you do. We think by deduction, but you think by comparisons. Although your comparisons are usually pertinent, they can't be used to assert conclusions. That's what I and Jeffbert try to make you understand each one in our own way.
For example, [b]you compare Astro with Batman because they both fight crime. That's true. They both accept eventually to take orders/requests from legal authority (Tawashi/Gordon). This is what is common between these two heroes.
Now let's look about their differences. About the family, Batman has none except Alfred (and even, he technically is not of his family). His parents where murdered when he was a child. On the other hand, Astro has only his father, who is not really his father because he was
Tobiyo's father. In the 2000s ( I let other series out of this

), Astro's "father" harms him repeatedly. Tell me if I'm wrong, but this looks as a great difference to me.
Now about their relations with society. Astro is integrated in the society, as far as a robot can be, even more because of his human emotions. Batman on the other hand has two relations: a normal one where he is a rich man in Gottam City, and another one, secret, with no (or very few) human relations other than using violence to arrest criminal and turn them over to the police. There again I see a huge difference between Astro and Batman.
Do you see that the common points allow to compare the two heroes, whereas their differences jeopardize any conclusion that can be asserted from the comparisons? [/b]
Yes... Yes. Batman has R/D into advanced weaponry, and advanced technology. As does Astro. Uran has no advanced weapons and is a construct of Elefun. Batgirl also is lacking the Tech of Batman. Astro is a Sword. A weapon. The possibility of Robot armies ravishing the world is very real. Dire. Real Dread. The Brunhildic iconography spoke volumes.
But the illusion of Maya prevented Jeffbert from knowing the truth.
He had become a mere plaything of the Great old Ones. Some are alien to Cartoon Land. And thus are unable to read iconographic communications. Thus Jeffbert was unable to grasp the Ka.
But don't dodge the issue. Can you, or can't you see the iconography of military industrialism and war weapons control in the picture? In the Anime? Was I correct, does not the picture relate perfectly with what Jeffbert was speaking of? Am I a punk MIT student to talk unrestrained concerning advanced weapons and military procurement and the design and programming parameters of the Astroboy Robot? Jeffbert has not yet made a VOID of me.

So I change the subject or couch the answer. A VOID would show you the blueprint for an Atom bomb just to prove his knowledge on the subject. Or the formula for Sarin.
My response to Jeffbert was perfectly posted. His failure to see IS revealing. :wahah: [/b][/quote]
"Yes... Yes.
Batman has R/D into advanced weaponry, and advanced technology. As does Astro. Uran has no advanced weapons and is a construct of Elefun. Batgirl also is lacking the Tech of Batman."
Cybotron himself mentioned this, but does he allow Batman a luxury that he denies to Tenma? Yes, he does. He concludes that Tenma obtained the designs for the photon weapons he built into Atom through his position at the Ministry of Science. But whence did Batman get his? Cybotron must think that he got them through his position as CEO of Wayne Industries; however, we see Batman using some rather unique weapons and other devices. Why does the military (in Batman's world) not have these same devices? I for one, do not recall seeing them employed by military forces in Batman 40s (or was it 50s?), 60s, or even the recent films. Batman is always represented as having technology more advanced than either the police, the military, or the govt. I think this also applies to the Cartoons, but rarely watch them, so, I allow that I could be wrong on this.

Therefore, cybotron has given evidence that supports my position on this question; and, hence, goes against his own position.
However, to remain unbiased, I must now argue against Fafner's "For example,
you compare Astro with Batman because they both fight crime. That's true. They both accept eventually to take orders/requests from legal authority (Tawashi/Gordon). This is what is common between these two heroes.
Now let's look about their differences. About the family, Batman has none except Alfred (and even, he technically is not of his family)." While I disagree with using an analogy as evidence, I likewise disagree with trying to expand the explicit comparision between two obviously different things, in an attempt to defeat the analogy by showing differences in other areas. The analogy between Batman & Atom aside, let me use a different one. "Judah is like a young lion, he has his teeth in his enemy's neck." This is a similie, and it asserts an analogy betweeen the man and the beast. However, it makes no claims as to any other similarities. Thus, if a detractor should attempt to defeat it by claiming that lions have tails, claws, & fangs, but men do not, & therefore the stated analogy between man & beast is false. One can clearly see the falure of this reasoning: "Yeah, but I never said that Judah had fangs, only that he was eager to attack his enemy, just as a lion is."

Here is a link to
Weak analogy. Fafner is commiting a weak analogy when he tries to extend cybotron's analogy beyond the similarity that cybotron used.

I think we all could benefit from reviewing proprely constructed logical arguments, so here is a fairly decent, although brief
examination of logic. Here is a page that links to
fairly detalied explanations of fallacies.
