Effective Debating does not involve using Known Logical Fallacies
Adding Personal Attacks and Insults Loses You the Argument.
I have noticed that a growing trend of ad hominem debate tactics have taken over the television, youtube channels especially in the comment sections, and now I am seeing it on steemit. So I am posting this to steemit, so everyone can use this link and send it to people guilty of this tactic on here. How to spot ad hominem: when disagreeing with you, they often will start their comment off by attacking you personally instead of the argument. This is an "ad hominem" logical fallacy, and honestly the most often used logical fallacy on the internet right now. Good solid arguments often get completely ignored because the argument is also filled with ad hominem attacks, such as starting the argument off with "you are an idiot", or "if you did any research", both of which imply the source of the information is bad, but neither address this information itself. People need to learn how to address an argument without attacking the irrelevant source of the information. Information and truth stand alone, the source only matters if it is a non factually based argument. This is why most honest people dislike both candidates for US President right now, as their typical mode of debate is ad hominem personal attacks, rather than debating policy. The truth is the truth, attacking the person saying it doesn't make your argument.
The Other logical Fallacies are Common Place as well.
All of these logical fallacies are found often in any modern debates. In fact they are also found just as often in the "truther" community as often as with the "mainstream sheeple". Any analysis of a debate over the Flat Earth nonsense generally devolves into ad hominem, and burden of proof debate tactics, both of which are logical fallacies. Same with almost any issue that people feel passionate about. People will leave long scathing comments or arguments, almost always riddled with these blatant logical fallacies. Which ends up with the same result, I stopped reading it and forgot about it, deal with it. If you want to actually have a debate over topics and truth, learn to take information in, and transcend the information rather than attacking the source.
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