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"To "attack a straw man" is to create the illusion of having refuted a proposition by substituting it with a superficially similar yet unequivalent proposition
by steve19 16y ago
"To "attack a straw man" is to create the illusion of having refuted a proposition by substituting it with a superficially similar yet unequivalent proposition (the "straw man"), and refuting it, without ever having actually refuted the original position."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strawman http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strawman
- ugh 16y agoI’m merely pointing out that you can’t treat leaking of documents from companies and the government the same way. That’s not a straw man, you really seem to claim that government and company leaks should be judged in the same way. I’m obviously very sure that you are aware that the New York Times is not part of the US government, my point was not that you do not know that, my point was that because of that fact you can’t really compare the two.