Good mornin’, don-o. :) I appreciate that as well. Not sure what you meant about another “red herring”, but perhaps you hadn’t read the rest of the posts yet.
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"The name of this fallacy comes from the sport of fox hunting in which a dried, smoked herring, which is red in color, is dragged across the trail of the fox to throw the hounds off the scent. Thus, a "red herring" argument is one which distracts the audience from the issue in question through the introduction of some irrelevancy. This frequently occurs during debates when there is an at least implicit topic, yet it is easy to lose track of it."