From: tnp@invalid.invalid

On 23/12/2025 22:19, John Ames wrote:
> A straw-man argument is, to quote Wikipedia, "the informal fallacy of
> refuting an argument different from the one actually under discussion,
> while not recognizing or acknowledging the distinction."

I always saw its essence as the protagonist need to win any argument,
when they couldn't win the one under discussion.

Hitler was a vegetarian and liked dogs, so he must have been essentially
a good man...

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