• Wren@lemmy.today
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    4 days ago

    Every comic is a logical fallacy if you can’t identify a logical fallacy.

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        4 days ago

        That’s my favorite one. I have a personal fallacy where I don’t believe anyone who brings up fallacies. You’re a liar and a thief.

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        3 days ago

        It’s not that confusing. It’s arguing a fallacy implies a false conclusion.

        A more common fallacy around here is to claim that merely identifying a fallacy is an instance of argument from fallacy when rejecting invalid arguments is logical.

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          merely identifying a fallacy is an instance of argument from fallacy

          When the comment begins and ends with “That’s an <X> fallacy” and ending any further introspection?

          “My mom said the sky is blue”

          “That’s an Argument from Authority! Fallacy!”

          When “fallacy!” becomes a thought-terminating response, it’s just debatebro shit.

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            I don’t know what you’re trying to say. When someone identifies a fallacy & ends it right there, what do you expect them to do? Pretend your argument doesn’t suck?

            No one needs to waste their time with someone else’s unsound reasoning.

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        3 days ago

        Did you just link to yourself? Thought that argument was so good you came over here to point at it, let me know?

        Either way, your premise is incorrect because this isn’t an argument, nor a statement. For all we know, it’s an anecdote. Perhaps, even a dream.

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          Did you just link to yourself?

          Yes, why write the same comment twice?

          Thought that argument was so good you came over here to point at it, let me know?

          It’s not an “argument”, anymore than “apples are fruits” is an “argument”. It’s stating a simple fact. It’s fallacious to conflate panels 1 and 3, and imply (via the 4th panel having the woman say she was correct to expect both characteristics in the same man) that the men who express the sentiment in panel 1 are the same ones who should be expected to react immaturely to honest/direct rejection.

          If you write a comic where a person sees someone else do two things one after the other, and then expresses that they correctly expected them to do the second thing after seeing them do the first, that is a very obvious endorsement of assuming that people who do the first thing also do the second thing.

          If it was a black guy who said he liked sports in panel 1, then she asked in panel 2 what sport was his favorite, and then he said basketball in panel 3, and panel 4 was identical (“Yup, that’s about what I expected!”), would you really think it was some crazy outlandish interpretation to read that as ‘the artist is saying that it’s correct to assume that black guys who like sports favor basketball’?

          this isn’t an argument, nor a statement. For all we know, it’s an anecdote. Perhaps, even a dream.

          You’re just being deliberately obtuse now.