How to win an argument unethically:
1. Pick a single part of the other's argument & attack it.
Ie. Your girlfriend is accusing you of cheating with Anita several times. Focus on the several times, tell her she is lying: "it was only one time". Hold it there. Don't budge.
1. Pick a single part of the other's argument & attack it.
Ie. Your girlfriend is accusing you of cheating with Anita several times. Focus on the several times, tell her she is lying: "it was only one time". Hold it there. Don't budge.
2. Pick a related but irrelevant topic & attack it.
i.e. Your girlfriend is shouting at you for cheating with Anita.
Focus on the shouting. Tell her she should not shout at you. Say, "you don't respect me". Hold it there. Don't budge. She'll get defensive, you've won.
i.e. Your girlfriend is shouting at you for cheating with Anita.
Focus on the shouting. Tell her she should not shout at you. Say, "you don't respect me". Hold it there. Don't budge. She'll get defensive, you've won.
3. Extrapolate the proportions of the other's argument.
i.e. Your girlfriend is shouting at you for cheating with Anita.
Exaggerate the scope of her argument.
Say, "I know you will say I also cheated with Joanne"
She'll get defensive. Home run!
i.e. Your girlfriend is shouting at you for cheating with Anita.
Exaggerate the scope of her argument.
Say, "I know you will say I also cheated with Joanne"
She'll get defensive. Home run!
4. Impose a position the other does not hold through rhetorical questions.
i.e. Your girlfriend is shouting at you for cheating with Anita.
Say, "so you are calling me a loser?"
Hold it. Don't budge.
i.e. Your girlfriend is shouting at you for cheating with Anita.
Say, "so you are calling me a loser?"
Hold it. Don't budge.
5. Repudiate! Repudiate!
i.e. Your girlfriend is shouting at you for cheating with Anita.
She has the evidence.
Deny! Deny! Deny!
It renders the argument inconclusive. That little positive doubt is your silver lining. People like to deceive themselves.
i.e. Your girlfriend is shouting at you for cheating with Anita.
She has the evidence.
Deny! Deny! Deny!
It renders the argument inconclusive. That little positive doubt is your silver lining. People like to deceive themselves.
Caveat: I do not condone, practice or encourage cheating/promiscuity/adultery in any form or shape.
The examples invoked were purely for learning purposes.
& those up there are in fact logical fallacies dumbed down.
The examples invoked were purely for learning purposes.
& those up there are in fact logical fallacies dumbed down.
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