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Originally Posted by stone hands
it kind of is. if they dont know what a strawman is then then you can explain the concept and why their argument is a strawman. if they still dont get it then there's no point in continuing to discuss whatever with them
fwiw i'm not advocating just saying
HAH, STRAWMAN. OWNED
arguing that logical fallacies are as valid as good faith, logical arguments because its pretentious to point out why people are making illogical statements is a baffling proposition to me
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Strawman is one thing, hell even the term is descriptive. But you expect most people to know what tu quoque is? That's pretentious. There are loads of logical fallacies, I suspect most people know less than 5 off hand. If you want to drop tu quoque you are better off just explaining why the specific reasoning they are using is wrong with regard to the point they are making.