Reply #17: Can you defend your position without Straw Men and personal insults? [View All]

[Richard Steele]

Description of Straw Man

The Straw Man fallacy is committed when a person simply ignores a person's actual position and substitutes a distorted, exaggerated or misrepresented version of that position. This sort of "reasoning" has the following pattern:

1. Person A has position X.(In this case, my opinion that this was fake)

2. Person B presents position Y, which is a distorted version of X.
(your sarcastic Jill Carroll reference to an opinion I DO NOT hold.)

3. Person B attacks position Y.

4. Therefore X is false/incorrect/flawed.

And, no matter how many times you use the preface "nothing personal",
an accusation that some (ASSUMED by you) 'hate' has left me incapable of
logical thought will ALWAYS be personally insulting.