Hello this is logician Gene Roddenberry's #1 Fan and welcome to another episode of my Vulcan logic course. Lat time I talked about the Personal Attack Fallacy in all of its forms and in this post I will be talking about the Straw Man Fallacy. The Straw Man is the second most popular logical fallacy among
Halo goons after
Argumentum ad Hominem.
Definition: An informal logical fallacy that distorts and/or oversimplifies and opponent's position and/or argument and later claims to heroically beat their opponent in a debate. This is fallacious because distorting things does not constitute addressing one's opponent's points as they were intended to be discussed.
Sample: "
Avatar is anti-human race and pro-aliens while
Halo is rightfully pro-human race. Loving
Avatar and hating
Halo is like us wanting to be invaded by otherworldly enemies, and I will not allow that to happen as long as we can fight."
As you can see the
Halo goon totally distorted the meaning of James Cameron's
Avatar to the hilt just to justify his sick notion that
Halo is glorious. He did not address a single point that his opponent made as to why
Avatar is better than
Halo up front, he chose to twist that rational argument to death.
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