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Originally Posted by jayswin
The trend of shouting out what fallacy people are using is a scourge on online discussion. It's not even used in bad faith by those who shout it out, it just has zero, and I mean zero positive value in a discussion. There's generally two reactions:
a) The person doesn't really know the fallacy or understand what accusation is being laid upon them
b) they get their back up and the discussion degrades even further than it already has.
It generally comes from the educated and irritates the uneducated, causing more friction and anger. I know everyone likes to think online discussion is a battle that they have to "win", but that is absolutely not the case if we have any chance of progressing as a civilization.
When faced with a chance to point out a fallacy it's almost always better to just either a) try to explain your position again, more clearly or simply or b) walk away.
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ugh!... this post is suuuuch an example of the dunning–Kruger effect
