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I don't if this is the right place for this but this will help out me and everybody who wishes to use it in trying to make good constructive arguments and making valid and constructive criticism of others.
Quick description of a Logical Fallacy
A logical fallacy is, roughly speaking, an error of reasoning. When someone adopts a position, or tries to persuade someone else to adopt a position, based on a bad piece of reasoning, they commit a fallacy. I say “roughly speaking” because this definition has a few problems, the most important of which are outlined below. Some logical fallacies are more common than others, and so have been named and defined. When people speak of logical fallacies they often mean to refer to this collection of well-known errors of reasoning, rather than to fallacies in the broader, more technical sense given above.
IT'S BECAUSE OF LOGICAL FALLACIES ALMOST 100% OF THE TIME BEING ARGUED THAT I CAN'T STAND POLITICAL DISCUSSIONS.
I have sat and listened for an hour to a group of idiots on the TV discussing something that is based on a given statement of "FACT" that starts the discussion off. The problem is that the opening statement is false. A good example of this kind of reasoning is the "Trickle down economics" that is debated ad nauseum. Almost all discussions on the topic are based on the idea that this economic theory works. That fact is based on nothing at all but fancy and in fact countless studies have shown it does not work. Your average unimformed person could listen to the quite intellegent discussion on the matter and conclude they would support this policy.
It seems that almost all political debates are based on the "Logical fallacy" type of thinking. It drives me nuts. It's misrepresentation of the highest order and those who use it are aware of what they are doing unless they are nothing but parrots and there are quite a few of those also. Gradually these logical fallacies enter the mainstream as givens as unchangable as a constant in science and all the time it's nothing but a load of BS.
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Thanks for calling me out on that. I apologize I meant for this thread not to berate people but had the best intentions in mind.
