From: tnp@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 23/12/2025 22:19, John Ames wrote:   
   > A straw-man argument is, to quote Wikipedia, "the informal fallacy of   
   > refuting an argument different from the one actually under discussion,   
   > while not recognizing or acknowledging the distinction."   
      
   I always saw its essence as the protagonist need to win any argument,   
   when they couldn't win the one under discussion.   
      
   Hitler was a vegetarian and liked dogs, so he must have been essentially   
   a good man...   
      
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   The New Left are the people they warned you about.   
      
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