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This strikes me as a false dichotomy. There is a solar-system-sized gap between "my country should not impose speech restrictions on foreign visitors" and "my c
by mitthrowaway2 1y ago
This strikes me as a false dichotomy. There is a solar-system-sized gap between "my country should not impose speech restrictions on foreign visitors" and "my country should police every other country to ensure that they do not impose speech restrictions upon their own citizens within their borders". Was anybody seriously proposing that?
- CGMthrowaway 1y agoI was only asking questions.
- mitthrowaway2 1y agoBut aren't some questions productive and others unproductive? And if so, should the US police the entire world to ensure that no unproductive questions are ever asked?
- text0404 1y agothis is such a trope at this point that it has its own wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_Asking_Questions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_Asking_Questions
- CGMthrowaway 1y agoThanks for the criticism. In this case, what do you see as the "false or distorted claims by framing them as questions" that I was making?
- mitthrowaway2 1y agoProbably: > a false dichotomy
- CGMthrowaway 1y agoThat's what you said, not me. Are you saying I presented a false dichotomy? A false dichotomy, also known as a false dilemma or either/or fallacy, occurs when only two options are presented as possibilities in a situation where other options exist. What are the two options I presented? I asked two Y/N questions and even if the answer to the first is Y, the answer to the second can still be Y or N, I'm not presupposing an answer.