On 11/10/03 11:01 PM, "Andrew Lih" alih@hku.hk wrote:
On Behalf Of The Cunctator At least according to Wikipedia, "the straw man rhetorical technique is the practice of refuting weaker arguments than your opponents actually offer."
Have you ever heard the saying, "Don't eat where you crap?" :)
Yes. Have you ever heard the saying "Little strokes fell mighty oaks?" I like that one because it rhymes. So?
That is what people have been doing. Your use of the word "crying"--when describing what people are doing in a textual medium--unnecessarily vilifies the posters.
For one, slippery slope arguments are fallacies too.
When debating our policies, pointing out resulting troubling scenarios and possible degradation to Wikipedia's reputation is a valid exercise given Wikipedia's stature and importance. Slippery slope arguments are not inherent fallacies.
Yes, they are. By definition it is a fallacy. Slippery slope arguments, by definition, are missing the connecting tissue.
You seem to have a basic misunderstanding of logical fallacies.