Re:California bans private prisons and immigration detention...
by nwallin on Friday June 12, 2020 @01:23PM
(#23501499)
That's not what a strawman argument is.
A strawman argument is when you restate someone's argument in a way that's stupid, then you refute the stupid argument. Or in the extreme case, argue against an argument that the person never made. In both cases, you're not arguing against the other person, you're arguing against a straw man that you made up. Hence the name.
It's still a logical fallacy, just a different one. Fallacy of relative privation applies.
A strawman argument is when you restate someone's argument in a way that's stupid, then you refute the stupid argument. Or in the extreme case, argue against an argument that the person never made. In both cases, you're not arguing against the other person, you're arguing against a straw man that you made up. Hence the name.
It's still a logical fallacy, just a different one. Fallacy of relative privation applies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies#Fallacy_of_r...