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It almost goes without saying, but in some cases, there's a fine line between sarcasm and strawmen.

• nobody9999 5y ago
  >It almost goes without saying, but in some cases, there's a fine line between sarcasm and strawmen. Are you claiming that I set up and knocked down a strawman? Please do elucidate. This should be interesting. Sure. I don't actually know a plumber who wants to perform coronary bypass surgery on me. In fact, I don't require such surgery, at least not at the moment. My comment was more "reductio ad absurdum"[0] to make the point rather than a strawman. And that point being that "expertise is not an illusion" in many cases. While it's true that there are folks who claim to know some things better than other folks, there are many areas (like medicine and a variety of other fields) where credentialed expertise is not only valid, but essential. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum