I don’t disagree with the main thrust of your comment, but,
I just wanna point out that ‘fallacious’ is often a midwit objection, and either ‘fallacious’ is not the true problem or it is the true problem but the stereotypes about what is fallacious do not align with reality: A Unifying Theory in Defense of Logical Fallacies
Yeah, that’s fair. I was mostly using it as a synonym for “badly reasoned and inaccurate” here. Agree that there are traps around policing speech by trying to apple rhetorical fallacies, which I wasn’t trying to do here.
I don’t disagree with the main thrust of your comment, but,
I just wanna point out that ‘fallacious’ is often a midwit objection, and either ‘fallacious’ is not the true problem or it is the true problem but the stereotypes about what is fallacious do not align with reality: A Unifying Theory in Defense of Logical Fallacies
Yeah, that’s fair. I was mostly using it as a synonym for “badly reasoned and inaccurate” here. Agree that there are traps around policing speech by trying to apple rhetorical fallacies, which I wasn’t trying to do here.