The (Un)OFFICIAL STRAW MAN Thread! Woot :D

[Selwynn]

First, go here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=488421&mesg_id=488421

Then, feel free to the "staw man" thread. Really we'll make it the Logical Fallacy thread! Here are the rules:

1. Every post made on this thread must take the form of some formal logical fallacy. For those of you who don't know much about logical fallacies, I refer you here:
http://www.datanation.com/fallacies/index.htm

So, as you probably now, some kind of propositional claim is needed to start things off....

I assert that Logical fallacies are very destructive to constructive argumentation.

Have fun. :D

[RobertSeattle]

1. Perhaps we need "Logic" Smiles

We need Strawman Smiley!

[rwenos]

2. Slippery Slope Demonstration

Propositions:

George W. Bush is from a right wing southern state.

George W. Bush is the son of a president and the grandson of a U.S. Senator.

George W. Bush was owner of a failed oil company that lost all its investors' money.

George W. Bush was in the Air Guard, then deserted.

George W. Bush has a Harvard MBA and was in Skull and Bones at Yale.

George W. Bush should be elected President of the United States.

(I'd say "re-elected" but that assumes Bush was "elected" the first time."

[Droopy]

3. Ah,

You just want to stifle debate with all your talk of logical fallacies. ;-)

[Kusala]

4. I would, but you are just a random poster,

and not an expert, in straw man strategies and logical fallacies.
And since you cannot prove I'm not an expert, you have no credibility.

Therefore, you alcoholic crackdealer, I'll ignore your obviously biased post.

Besides, tin men are obviously more believable.

[Selwynn]

9. HAHAHHAAHHAHA

That was awesome.

You're local alcholic crackdealer. :)

[tmasseyx]

5. Fun with consequents

Selwynn says:

I assert that Logical fallacies are very destructive to constructive argumentation.

I reply:

Rush Limbaugh is very descructive to construnctive argumentation.
Q.E.D. Rush Limbaugh is a logical fallacy.

[Selwynn]

12. How about this:

If Rush is an idiot, then Republicans are wrong.
But Rush is not an idiot,
Therefore, Republicans are not wrong.

(a fallacy on so many different levels hahhahaa)

[kixot]

6. You better take that back or I'll pound you.

argumentum ad baculum

[slackmaster]

7. Selwynn is trying to prove his/her intellectual superiority

Selwynn thinks we are all too stupid to carry on a rational, logical debate.

I must ask, is Selwynn actually a Freeper troll here to disrupt DU, or just an obnoxious pseudo-intellectual trying to make us all feel inferior?

[rwenos]

8. Ad Hominem

Another demonstration:

Republicans suck.

Now construction a counterargument.

[Selwynn]

11. It is true that all DUers always make flawless rational arguments.

:D

[slackmaster]

15. So you are really saying none of us are real DUers

It figures.

[Selwynn]

16. Hahahahahhahaha

nice. :yourock:

[Speck Tater]

10. My Hoover (vacuum cleaner) sucks,

Republicans suck.
Therefore Hoover is a Repuublican.

[MGKrebs]

13. If logical fallacicies are destructive,

then illogical fallacies must be constructive.

Therefore, I submit that:

"The space program does not exist. We never landed on the moon"

MUST lead to constructive argument.

[Selwynn]

14. ROFL

You're killing me!