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Actually that is what is known as a red herring argument. Bringing up something unrelated saying that the original argument is invalidated because the same reas
by suifbwish 5y ago
Actually that is what is known as a red herring argument. Bringing up something unrelated saying that the original argument is invalidated because the same reasoning wasn’t applied to it is a common informal fallacy. Most legal documents have something related to severability which states that even if one part of the document is found to be unreasonable/illegal/illogical, it does not invalidate the rest of the document.
- minsc__and__boo 5y agoThat's not what a red herring is. They're calling out the logical inconsistency of the claims being made, and in turn questioning the genuineness of the speaker's motive.