A brass balance scale holds several small wooden blocks opposite a single gray block.

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David

A billion chinese people can't be wrong.

— The Lost Boys • 1987

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker argues that a huge number of believers guarantees correctness, treating sheer headcount as proof. The line trades on the familiar fallacy that widespread belief settles a question, delivered with breezy confidence rather than any actual evidence for the claim itself.

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