cameron_vale@lemm.ee to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 7 months agoFor thousands of years the smartest people considered gods, spirits, "the little people" and the afterlife to be a reality. What's wrong with us modern people?message-squaremessage-square41fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
arrow-up10arrow-down1message-squareFor thousands of years the smartest people considered gods, spirits, "the little people" and the afterlife to be a reality. What's wrong with us modern people?cameron_vale@lemm.ee to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 7 months agomessage-square41fedilink
minus-squareLvxferre@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-27 months ago Then you are strawmanning. That is not a straw man. The other user is simply not cooperating on the arbitrary restrictions that you’re imposing on his argument. A straw man would require him to misrepresent your position. You are however cherry picking.
minus-squarecameron_vale@lemm.eeOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·7 months agoArbitrary? It’s literally the examples I offered in the title. Which also implies the class of “stuff they saw but we don’t see”. And he could have gone there too. But no. He went for the caricature. You people.
That is not a straw man. The other user is simply not cooperating on the arbitrary restrictions that you’re imposing on his argument. A straw man would require him to misrepresent your position.
You are however cherry picking.
Arbitrary? It’s literally the examples I offered in the title.
Which also implies the class of “stuff they saw but we don’t see”. And he could have gone there too.
But no. He went for the caricature.
You people.