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Post by Arlon10 on Aug 9, 2018 15:58:40 GMT
<nothing a real life person would say> Thank you for making clear what the problem is here. You are a "grunt." That is a disparaging term, I know, I'm sorry. I couldn't believe Sigourney Weaver (as "Ripley") used the term in the movie Aliens. How rude! And against people her life depended on! It means a person who only follows orders because he isn't capable of independent thought or articulate speech. He depends entirely on what he believes is "authority" for all his thoughts and decisions. There are various types of arguments; ad hominem, ad populum, ad potentiam and others that amateurs on the internet call "fallacies." However they are not always fallacies. The ad hominem "fallacy" only occurs when the personal flaws of the speaker cannot indicate flaws in some argument sufficiently distinct from the speaker. The ad populum argument is not a fallacy in elections. There are times when the ad potentiam argument must take control of a situation, however that isn't working for you. You are just a grunt. Grunts accuse their opponents of "fallacies" because it is a simple and seemingly powerful alternative to actually engaging in the argument and building a case. There may indeed be times when arguing that something is not good because it seems unnatural will not be effective in convincing reasonable people of anything. However there can also be times, as with ad hominem, ad populum, ad potentiam and many other types of arguments, that such an argument works very logically. You are obviously not capable of knowing the difference, which is why I recommend you don't ever try.
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