Irrational Reasoning - Natural and Artificial Reasoning - page 117

Sure enough, the filtering companies responded by blocking the offenders. Then Peacefire
revealed the true sources of the quotations—all were taken verbatim from the websites of
conservative organisations, including the Family Research Council, Focus on the Family and
Concerned Women for America. Would the content-filtering companies now block these big
and influential lobby groups? Not yet, which means you can read the self-same daft words
on their sites, along with plenty of other material, but not on the bait pages that Peacefire
erected to test the system.

9.3.1.2 Safety

From a report by Jeremy Clarkson, Sunday Times, April 11 2004 .

The essence of the quotation was that the Health and Safety Executive (HSR) has attempted
to provide legal control over all behaviour at work to such an extent that it is impossible to
actually do his job. The nickname for the HSE is the Programme Prevention Department.

9.3.2 The Problem of Irrational Sets

9.3.2.1 Guilt

Report on the film 'Capturing the Friedmans' by Cosmo Landsman, Sunday Times,
April 11 2004.

He found this film riveting because every time new evidence was present he kept on changing
his mind about who was guilty until by the end of the film he was still unsure. The fascination
about the film was concerned with the nature of memory and the way facts can be so fluid.
It was a perplexing and poignant film.

9.3.2.2 Murder

Report on the execution of Paul Hill at Starke, Florida, CBSNEWS.com, September
4 2003

The execution of Paul Hill for the murder of a doctor who performed abortions and his
bodyguard left U.S. abortion providers anxious - and wary that the former minister may
become a martyr to the anti-abortion cause and spur others to act violently.
Paul Hill's final statement ... if you believe abortion is a lethal force, you should oppose
the force and do what you can to stop it
Paul Hill should be honoured today, the abortionists should be executed. Said Drew Holman
We think that unborn children should be protected and it should be law. Said Sheila Hopkins,
a spokeswoman for the Florida Catholic Conference. We definitely reject his statement that
it was justifiable homicide.

Attempts at providing a rational description of irrational sets has stimulated exten-
sions to the 'crisp' set by assigning a 'value' to a membership. Examples are fuzzy
and probabilistic membership assignments. However, fuzzy sets are rational in that