20 Logical Fallacies That Dumb People Use To Win Arguments, And How To Spot Them

That's actually a separate category of fallacy - argument from authority (argumentum ad verecundiam).

Especially when you are a doctor of philosophy XD

That one is called appeal to authority

mardi nugro same

I’m on #2 but I can guarantee that all of these fallacies are used in defense of various religions.

Not really, the right to have guns is protected by the Constitution. It is more than a tradition.

@diane a yea the constitution didn't give "nutters age 17 the right to buy and bear arms" either. You obviously know precisely jack and s**t about our constitution from way over there in England and way up there on that high horse, so do a little research before you toss some b******t out.

Um? -- I know people don't like to be disagreed with--, but actually "religion" is quite an interesting and complex topic, to be found in and explained by sociology, psychology, philosophy, even history. I'm not very religious , and I agree, that a lot of extremely Religious people do way too much of that ( "meme" above) plus: being judgmental, not reflecting their own belief, not being critical about what their "leaders" are telling them to be true,... Still, it's not the only thing to be said about religion- don't try to fight them by their own means, it doesn't help.

Than nonsense about guns was redundant.

If you can just arbitrarily decide to get rid of one Amendment because many people disagree with it, what's to stop others from getting rid of other Amendments? What about the one that protects against discrimination towards gay people and people of other races?

It is a guaranteed right to have guns in the US. A basic human right as well. What does false argument have to do with faith and spirituality?

You must not surround yourself with smart religious persons if you think "tradition" is every religious person's reason for their belief. Likewise with the gun argument. My advice is to widen your group of friends.

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The American Constitution has alot to answer for. Apart from guns it gave citizens the right to own slaves and kill it's natives.

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Sorry, did the nazis disarm the citizenry, yep, think they did, I'm gonna go ahead and say a big no thanks to that one. And when the zombie apocalypse happens, I'll be sitting pretty

And we all know someone that died and had drink water at least once in this/her life! Water is dangerous! Stop drinking water!

Everyone who is vaccinated will die - just not of contagious diseases

that's called a hasty generalization fallacy--based on anecdote. However, the guy who did that first vaccination study that caused this whole problem did cherry pick--he used information that proved his claim despite the mountains of information that proved he was wrong or the fact that he lied about his information.

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I think flat Earthers are stupid and dangerous too, but I don't think it has to do with this one. It takes some really f****d up mental gymnastics to actually manage to believe Flat Earth Theory. I think it's actually harder than just trusting science

Many people are flat earthers because they reject the "appeal to authority" fallacy--they don't simply take the word of scientists. The roundness of the earth needs to be proven to them. And that is actually sound logic.

As long as they die and burn in hell alone, I applaud too. But there are opinions that are dangerous (leading to violence or impacting kids health) and those ones drive me mad!

Heh, where I live (in the northwest of England, UK) a "trump" is slang for a fart, so the windy connection makes perfect sense! Why all the hurricanes? Because President Trump-ed!

Yep, and in my world, reaching the Godwin point means you have no argument, which amounts to losing the debate

Which someone used already! Reached the Godwin point really quickly!

No, Godwin's law is that the longer a conversation goes on, the more likely Hitler will be mentioned.

Godwin revoked his "law".

All comparisons are invalid. Stop going back to this well and get a better argument.

So very true!

Not really. Esoteric religions (Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism etc.) always stated that supernatural beings live on some other plane of existence and thus attempt to disprove such claim by empirical reasoning is comparing apples to oranges. For that reason, no one proved existence of god(s) but no one also proved its non-existence. And no one probably ever will.

Another one being "No true Scotsman" which is predictably argued when confronted with the fact that religion caused violence and oppression. "No true (insert religionist here) would behave in such a way."

Arguing with atheist in a nutshell...