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I'll agree that the comparison to ISIS is absurd.
by aww_dang 6y ago
I'll agree that the comparison to ISIS is absurd.
- cthalupa 6y agoYou seem to be missing the point. Reductio ad absurdum is a rhetorical tool, not a logical fallacy. It's goal is to show that your argument is absurd, because the absurd statement follows from the argument you are making.
- aww_dang 6y agoI'm well aware of what reductio ad absurdism is. I don't agree that it is relevant to the point I am making in regards to the parent comment. If anything, I'm rejecting the absolutism you seem to perceive by distinguishing between what I see as two very different things. >I find myself wondering where these people were in 2014 when all the major social media platforms systematically removed ISIS accounts... Perhaps these people didn't object for the reasons I described above. ISIS is nothing like the Capitol Hill demonstrators.