April 23, 200718 yr Author I mean that due to an insufficiency of wit I was unable to determine how your straw man had arrived on the field of play. "It wasn't lies. It was just... bull****"." -Elwood Blues tarna's dead; processing... complete. Disappointed by Universe. RIP Hades/Sand/etc. Here's hoping your next alt has a harp.
April 23, 200718 yr "Intervention by the Belgians created the Rwandan genocide," [sic], "Ergo, ALL intervention is a Bad Idea™." = Strawman. A straw man argument is a logical fallacy based on misrepresentation of an opponent's position. To "set up a straw man" or "set up a straw-man argument" is to create a position that is easy to refute, then attribute that position to the opponent. A straw-man argument can be a successful rhetorical technique (that is, it may succeed in persuading people) but it is in fact a misleading fallacy, because the opponent's actual argument has not been refuted. OBSCVRVM PER OBSCVRIVS ET IGNOTVM PER IGNOTIVS OPVS ARTIFICEM PROBAT
April 24, 200718 yr Author Aha. Hence that rule about Nazis. I have to say that Sando should write some books about Rwanda that ignore everything that happened during th genocide and concentrate solely on the Belgians. They'd sure as hell sell to someone. "It wasn't lies. It was just... bull****"." -Elwood Blues tarna's dead; processing... complete. Disappointed by Universe. RIP Hades/Sand/etc. Here's hoping your next alt has a harp.
April 24, 200718 yr No wonder Alfred Graf von Schlieffen had no qualms about waltzing through Belgium (and they did play some Brahms and Chopin en route, too). OBSCVRVM PER OBSCVRIVS ET IGNOTVM PER IGNOTIVS OPVS ARTIFICEM PROBAT
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