No true scottsman and false dichotomies come up all the time.
I was just barely telling someone they were using a false dichotomy to pretend that the prison situation in the US is a choice between putting innocent people on death row vs actually arresting and prosecuting rich people like they do poor people.
OBVIOUSLY, there should be a HUGE area between those two extremes, yet idiots constantly pretend that asking for change can only be a choice between one or the other.
This happens everywhere in politics on all topics. Some political parties’ entire campaign strategies are to leverage nice sounding logical fallacies.
No true scottsman and false dichotomies come up all the time.
I was just barely telling someone they were using a false dichotomy to pretend that the prison situation in the US is a choice between putting innocent people on death row vs actually arresting and prosecuting rich people like they do poor people.
OBVIOUSLY, there should be a HUGE area between those two extremes, yet idiots constantly pretend that asking for change can only be a choice between one or the other.
This happens everywhere in politics on all topics. Some political parties’ entire campaign strategies are to leverage nice sounding logical fallacies.