Re:‘I Don’t Really Want to Work for Facebook.’ Say Some Comp...
by javajosh on Friday November 16, 2018 @03:47AM
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I mean, I see what you're doing here, haha, but AlexanderB brings up a good point about asymmetrical debate, where one side says something sloppy, vague and poorly sourced and then expects you to "write a thesis" to rebut. Personally, I think this phenomena really does need a name, less to dismiss it, more to get lazy arguers to stop demanding high quality rebuttals (and at the very least to make the debate easier to walk away from). Fundamentally it's a kind of hypocrisy, but it needs a lyrical name. I like the pattern of naming a fallacy and then opting out that you're demonstrating, but a name could actually be useful. Indeed you could even term it a fallacy, the "vice demanding virtue" fallacy, or something like that.
Re:‘I Don’t Really Want to Work for Facebook.’ Say Some Comp...
by oarsinsync on Friday November 16, 2018 @05:42AM
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> ...and at the very least to make the debate easier to walk away from...
I find simply reminding myself that duty doesn't actually call[0] to be a very easy way to walk away from any debate that isn't going anywhere productive
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_equivalence
(This is why I don't think labeling is a rebuttal.)