Re:LSD: The Geek's Wonder Drug? (2006)
by anonbanker on Monday January 26, 2015 @11:02PM
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You van insult my post all you want, but you're blind if you honestly think your reply wasn't a misrepresentation of my original statement, unless you can prove that I said exactly what you said I did in the post before I pointed out the straw man.
But you can't, so you won't.
There is no strawman because I was asking a question about your position, not asserting that you held a certain position.
Please, if your position isn't what I asked, state what it is.
Re:LSD: The Geek's Wonder Drug? (2006)
by anonbanker on Tuesday January 27, 2015 @02:00AM
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really? your entire defense is coming down to "it's not a strawman if it's asked in a question"?
definitely adding you to the list of astroturfers on HN with that reply.
Questions aren't assertions, and one of the requirements for straw man is asserting you hold a position.
I'm done with this discussion at this point. I don't think you really have a concrete claim regarding the topic and you are avoiding creating one by derailing the conversation by arguing my question is fallacious.
"A straw man is a common type of argument and is an informal fallacy based on the misrepresentation of an opponent's argument."
I haven't misrepresented your argument in any way since I haven't represented your argument in any way. I never claimed you claimed anything. It isn't fallacious to ask someone to clarify an argument.
You didn't explicitly state your argument (or anything of substance), so I asked what you were actually trying to claim.