In that case, I do beg your pardon, Claytron. It was silly of me to think you were replying to me when you quoted me in your reply. It should have been immediately obvious that you were referring to
http://forum.opencarry.org/forums/sh...n-Falcon/page3 even though you didn't even mention it. is an unforgivable lapse on my part. I guess my mentalist powers are a little below par on days that end in "y". I feel so sheepish now, not to have realized it.
Well, since you didn't say that I don't know what a straw man argument really means, I guess I won't have to trot out the fact that I've participated in debate classes and that I'm kinda familiar with the rules, what logical fallacies are, and how they shouldn't be used in good debates. Dodged that little bullet
. Do I think you created your own situation? Yeah, I thought it was pretty clear when I stated such. There are generally two ways to prove a position wrong. One, is to use the position that was stated, and the second is to instead substitute one's own scenario and to prove the newly posited scenario wrong. Any guess which is the 'straw man'?
Odd, I don't think I ever mentioned anything about homosexuality. Were you inferring that one's sexuality can be determined by what beverage they imbibe? I had no idea that putting a pink umbrella in straight whiskey made one gay. Is it contagious, do you think?
Sorry to disappoint, but nothing of the sort was implied. It was merely a bit of misdirection that easily fools novices into aiming at the wrong target in debates. That it fooled you into doing so, is somewhat embarrassing to me as I thought no one would be so foolish as to fall for it.
Hey, remember that guy? Yeah, the one made from straw, remember? When one's rebuttal begins with the phrase "If the answer is 'yes'..." that's generally a clue that your are substituting your own scenario and not answering the one posed. When you predictably "win" such an argument, all you have done is defeated yourself.