Originally Posted by
defrosted
No I haven't crossed at those two specifically, but my point was there are probably hundreds of agents at YVR, with thousands of interactions per day. Even if only I have had never had a bad experience statistically then they can't all be jerks.
Which brings me to my "funny" logic. Which was basically, I have experienced no jerks at YVR, you have. The fact that I haven't means they aren't all jerks.
If your premise was some of them are jerks or even most of them are jerks, maybe your argument of whose anecdotal evidence is more valid would make sense. However this thread is labeled "Why is YVR immigration such jerks?", the simple fact is they aren't all jerks. Not to mention jerks is a relative term, your idea of jerk and mine could be wildly different. The last couple of them I encountered were quite nice actually.
I truly am sorry you have had bad experiences, but the notion that YVR immigration are jerks based solely on your experience is ludicrous. Perhaps a thread asking if anyone else has had similar experiences as you would be more fruitful then labeling an entire team of people as jerks.
It is a simple mathematical principle that you cannot prove the non-existence of A by saying you have never encountered A. But you can prove the existence of B if you have even encountered one B.
So your statement that you have met "no jerks at YVR" doesn't mean anything about whether or not there are jerks at YVR.
With regards to a statement "immigration at YVR are jerks"-if you don't like the fact I didn't qualify "immigration" with "some", then I presume you have issues with basically any statement. "Air Canada is the always late airline." Well, maybe 1 in a 1000 times they are on. That makes the statement invalid. Someone should qualify that statement. People make blanket statements. Like Tim Horton's is good. Does it mean they have never had an experience in which there was an aspect of Tim Horton's they thought wasn't good? It's just a way people speak.
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