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Should we be more invested in climate change and the environment as christians?
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<blockquote data-quote="Francis Drake" data-source="post: 72396599" data-attributes="member: 329010"><p>Again <span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="color: rgb(25, 25, 25)">[USER=87383]@apogee[/USER], </span></span></span>congratulations in imagining your defeat of [USER=377008]@rjs330[/USER] . You have scored another straw man victory.</p><p>Maybe you should get your "universal translator" checked out cos on my laptop, he states the opposite of what you seem to be reading on yours!</p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><span style="color: #ff0000"><strong>Straw man</strong></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000">A <strong>straw man</strong> is a common form of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_argument" target="_blank">argument</a> and is an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informal_fallacy" target="_blank">informal fallacy</a> based on giving the impression of refuting an opponent's argument, while actually refuting an argument that was not presented by that opponent.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man#cite_note-Stephen_Downes-1" target="_blank">[1]</a> One who engages in this fallacy is said to be "attacking a straw man".</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000">The typical straw man argument creates the illusion of having completely refuted or defeated an opponent's proposition through the covert replacement of it with a different proposition (i.e., "stand up a straw man") and the subsequent refutation of that false argument ("knock down a straw man") instead of the opponent's proposition</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Francis Drake, post: 72396599, member: 329010"] Again [SIZE=4][FONT=Verdana][COLOR=rgb(25, 25, 25)][USER=87383]@apogee[/USER], [/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE]congratulations in imagining your defeat of [USER=377008]@rjs330[/USER] . You have scored another straw man victory. Maybe you should get your "universal translator" checked out cos on my laptop, he states the opposite of what you seem to be reading on yours! [SIZE=6][COLOR=#ff0000][B]Straw man[/B][/COLOR][/SIZE] [COLOR=#ff0000]From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/COLOR] [COLOR=#ff0000]A [B]straw man[/B] is a common form of [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_argument']argument[/URL] and is an [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informal_fallacy']informal fallacy[/URL] based on giving the impression of refuting an opponent's argument, while actually refuting an argument that was not presented by that opponent.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man#cite_note-Stephen_Downes-1'][1][/URL] One who engages in this fallacy is said to be "attacking a straw man".[/COLOR] [COLOR=#ff0000]The typical straw man argument creates the illusion of having completely refuted or defeated an opponent's proposition through the covert replacement of it with a different proposition (i.e., "stand up a straw man") and the subsequent refutation of that false argument ("knock down a straw man") instead of the opponent's proposition[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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