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Idiot Fallacy
{ This may have an alternative, more politically correct name, but I think my name is more appropriate. ~drummyfish }
Idiot fallacy is an argument fallacy related to shortcut thinking, by which an idiot implies B from A on the basis that A is associated with B in any way, without A necessarily implying B.
Some examples include:
- "He likes guns, therefore he also likes war, violence, hunting etc."
- "He likes to watch gore videos, therefore he is a violent man and supports violence in real life."
- "He opposes bloat, therefore he supports the privacy and productivity hysteria and his hobby must be ricing tiling window managers."
- "He acknowledges the existence and significance of human races, therefore he is hostile to other races and supports their genocide."
- "He plays competitive games so he must think having society based on competition is a good idea."
- "He was born in country X so he likes and supports country X."
- "He dislikes/opposes a certain social group, therefore he wants to eliminate that group by any means necessary and he cannot love anyone in that group or anyone who supports that group."
- "He opposes capitalism, therefore he supports gay fascism, woman fascism and Marxism." (this is also an American false dichotomy)
- "He got an erection from seeing a 16 year old girl, therefore he is a psychopath who wants to rape toddlers and is thinking about nothing else 24/7 and the only goal of his life is to rape children."
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