BenDjinn t1_jd8xoqt wrote on March 22, 2023 at 6:01 PM

I agree that having a fallacy in a premise doesn't cause the following conclusion to be false but it still detracts from the relative truth of the argument. Some fallacies are unavoidable like adhere to authority or straw man but doing our best to mitigate fallacies is one of the defining factors of rationality. Refusing to hold political debates to the same standards as high school debates is what has led the US political scene to be so irrational.

bigbenis21 t1_jdgbz18 wrote on March 24, 2023 at 4:42 AM

Our current struggle with fallacy-ism is that we use it to argue about stuff in our everyday lives. Sometimes people just don’t need to explain why they like or don’t like something, because we’re emotional creatures. Sometimes we don’t even know why we like or don’t like something, but we shouldn’t be required to give a water-tight example of why we like or don’t like it.