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To: RobRoy
"How about the part where they threw an unresisting suspect down a flight of stairs?

"Straw Man" - one of the most often misused terms of the fallacious arguments.

You prove why.

Pointing out that there WASN'T a SWAT team when someone says that there was a SWAT isn't a fallacious argument, and it certainly isn't a straw man argument.

However, the fact that you - repeatedly - fail to understand this, doesn't say much about the rest of your diatribe.

Moral of the story - don't you phrases you clearly don't understand.

129 posted on 04/24/2011 11:09:32 AM PDT by OldDeckHand
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To: OldDeckHand

>>”Straw Man” - one of the most often misused terms of the fallacious arguments.

You prove why.

Pointing out that there WASN’T a SWAT team when someone says that there was a SWAT isn’t a fallacious argument, and it certainly isn’t a straw man argument.

However, the fact that you - repeatedly - fail to understand this, doesn’t say much about the rest of your diatribe.

Moral of the story - don’t you phrases you clearly don’t understand.<<

Give it up. The straw man has been burned alive. Stay on topic.

BTW, what I find comical is that you are correct, but it is still irrelevant. Someone else said straw man and I decided to run with it even though, technically speaking your argument is more accurately called Argumentum Red Herring.

Most people think of the two as pretty much the same thing and it was (and is) good enough for the point being made.


136 posted on 04/24/2011 11:14:32 AM PDT by RobRoy (The US today: Revelation 18:4)
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