eli5 Whats a “Straw man fallacy”?
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The straw man fallacy is when you argue against a position by distorting the position into something that’s easily defeated. You point out how the distorted view is wrong or bad, and then declare victory over the original position.
One example is the argument against abortion access. The “straw man” could be that pro-abortion people enjoy killing babies. Of course it’s awful to enjoy killing babies, therefore abortions are bad. By itself it sounds convincing, but it ignores the real reasons to be pro-abortion, and that no-one (or not everyone, at least) who is pro-abortion enjoys killing babies.
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