In Scotland, to where he emigrated in order to move his goalpost business.
Of course you go for the no true slippery slope climbing, red herring walking, goalpost moving Scottish straw man argument
A true Scotsman would have founded his goalpost business in Scotland.
Damn Scots, they ruined Scotland!
it’s hard to reconcile with others on the internet when you don’t know anything about them. their personhood gets reduced to a series of opinions and stances. I’m worried that engaging with people through the lens of formal logic will just further disconnect us from one another.
Good observation
One might even call it “astute”
yeesh does that hit home, last day or two i’ve been trying very hard to have a conversation with someone and their replies were wild assumptions about me and insults based on said wild assumptions, no actual arguments or anything, just being mad at a version of me they fully made up in their head. At first i felt kinda hurt by their words, i think rather understandably i’m not a fan of being insulted even when the insults make little sense, but then it just became really confusing how confident they were being about things they made up.
i think as long as you don’t try to psycho-analyse a stranger on the internet basing on a single conversation you had you’ll be fine lol. stick to arguing with their points and trying to understand their stances not attacking them personality or extracting a whole made up image of who they could be
Elegantly said.
am i stupid for thinking herrings were birds?
Herons are birds. Maybe that’s what you’re thinking of.
ah! thats the one!
Or… It’s a flying red herring!!
That’s a really stupid thing to think.
I totally knew they weren’t birds 👀
Ackchyually, it should be down the slippery slope because physics, facts and logic. 🤓
Look at this idiot here, not understanding the herring’s natural state to swim up slipperiness.
Dammit, I was not counting on biology to be the crux of my argument. You win this round, Simpson!
People on the internet will literally take the worst interpretation of what you’re saying in order to argue against it. While you’re stuck clarifying your point, they just keep attacking (often without advancing any competing thoughts of their own).
If I weren’t so passionate about standing behind my comments I wouldn’t keep falling for it, but somehow I do every time.
I hear you. I keep falling for it too.
The instinct to correct stupid people is a strong one.
I’m in this comment and I don’t like it.
So you’re saying people are angry jerks that just want to fight? What exactly does standing behind your comments mean, like pushing grandma down the stairs or something? You horrible person
/s if it wasn’t obvious enough
same, it’s hard to let go of a futile conversation even when you feel like the other person is arguing in bad faith
The frequency of strawman and slippery slope accusations tells us more about how people usually think than how people usually argue.
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Labeling whole arguments seems to be really effective as long as the opposition gets it. Usually this is not the case, though.
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This post is saying that killing orphans is ok and that Batman Begins was the best Christopher Nolan Batman movie. Before I get to the orphan thing I have to say that the Dark Knight Rises was clearly the better movie and thinking anything else is just one step away from starting World War 3.
It seems he left his dead horse at home this time
What is this, a cross over episode?
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
Wow, no Monty Python jokes. That’s a first.
He’s on his way to argue that his red herring is dead
And it went…^wherever I…did go
S+RAW
Nice! Which AI was this?
An AI named Will Santino.
Yes, I have read that they’re starting to develop wills of their own.
I’m assuming this one was trained off of fashion designer Santino Rice, of Project Runway and Drag Race fame…
