By joshuah at 7 November, 2009, 4:26 pm
Someone needs to tell this woman that she is no longer a POW.
The Straw Man fallacy is committed when a person simply ignores a person’s actual position and substitutes a distorted, exaggerated or misrepresented version of that position. This sort of “reasoning” has the following pattern:
- Person A has position X. “It is possible that the actions of Major Nidal Mailk Hasan were ideologically motivated.”
- Person B presents position Y (which is a distorted version of X). “You’re saying that because he is a Major in the army that he’s not going to feel like a private would feel. That’s crap.”
- Person B attacks position Y. “You are a JAG officer and have no idea what it’s like to be in combat.”
- Therefore X is false/incorrect/flawed.
The next phase of the discussion involves the use of the ole Ad Hominem attack, but I’ll leave that up to you to spot. Great fun, that.
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