Do You Ever Intentionally Incorporate Logical Fallacies Into Your Arguments?

[Stylesjl]

With a bit of study and practice, one may incorporate all sorts of logical fallacies, such as straw man, bandwagon fallacy, appeal to nature, appeal to tradition and so on, into one's arguments. We do this unintentionally all the time; however, when done with the right fallacy at the right time, one may win arguments by intentionally employing logical errors.

Is this ethical? Is it a good idea? Do you do it, and if you could, would you? This brings up all sorts of interesting issues regarding the ethics of debate.

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Ergo, I don't use logical fallacies

 

[Jawz II]

I know how to do it, but I don't.

What a stoopid waste of time. Do you see a jury? Am I a lawyer?

So if I know I'm being full of crap, and the guy I'm talkin to knows it too, and he knows that I know he knows, then why should I do it?



Life is short. I don't talk with that kind of people.

 

[Gainy]

are yuo just spammin to increase ur rep/get ur postcount up or do you care to have a discussion in your thread?

no i am not as clever as u. What ethical issues does it bring up?

 

[On Yer Flour]

In after someone taking bardolph's post seriously

I wasn't. I realized that he was replying by using my example logical fallacies in order, and I replied likewise.

 

[Weird_bug]

I will if I sound cool

 

[Martacus]

I'll do it if I realize my audience is dumb enough to fall for them.

That said, I don't participate in a lot of debates or arguments.

 

[Ansar]

I do it because the people I argue with are idiots who can't tell if it's true or not.

 

[Mirc]

No, never intentionally. And I know how to do it. What do I vote?

I would if winning an argument would really be very very important and I knew I could get away with it 100%. But I doubt this will ever happen.