Unfair Argument Tactics

I’ve noticed that debates often have certain arguments tossed in that unfairly discredit the opposing side, not because they carry any validity, but because they were “grabbed” first by one side or the other.

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  • 2019-10-21

When do we stop referring to dead people as “the late”? We don’t say “the late Thomas Jefferson”, or “the late Galileo”, or “the late Adam and Eve”. There must be a cut off point.

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  • 2019-04-26

One man walks by faith and another walks by sight.  The first man is spiritual and the second is scientific.  Both are walking in a legitimate way; neither is wrong.  One, however, is creating and changing his world while the other is reacting and being changed by his world.

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  • 2015-08-25

Sometimes there is a fine line between two actions.  One action can be acceptable while a very similar but barely different action is socially unacceptable.

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  • 2015-08-18

How can a month of music cost more than a month of HD video? Netflix: $7.99/mo for unlimited high-definition streaming of movies and TV shows totaling hundreds of hours and hundreds of GB per month for a single user. Spotify: $9.99/mo for unlimited streaming music totaling a few GB per...

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  • 2015-08-12