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Straw man arguments are a fallacy, not a "rhetorical device". It's an error we're all prone to doing at some point, unintentionally. I would argue that it's onl
by simondotau 5y ago
Straw man arguments are a fallacy, not a "rhetorical device". It's an error we're all prone to doing at some point, unintentionally. I would argue that it's only unethical if it's done intentionally—and while you can guess at someone's intention, knowing is usually impossible. So unless you can literally read minds, only the author can truly know if they were being unethical or not.
- bytelines 5y ago> Straw man arguments are a fallacy, not a "rhetorical device" They're both? But agree with everything else
- simondotau 5y agoIt is not both. Only a fallacy. A straw man is an attribute of an argument which is completely independent from the language used to convey it.