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am i stupid for thinking herrings were birds?
That’s a really stupid thing to think.
I totally knew they weren’t birds 👀
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.
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’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
The frequency of strawman and slippery slope accusations tells us more about how people usually think than how people usually argue.
Labeling whole arguments seems to be really effective as long as the opposition gets it. Usually this is not the case, though.
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
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
