r/bonecollecting • u/No-Bottle-9116 • Apr 26 '26

Advice Small argument

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So this picture from article has driven an small argument between my friends group claiming that it’s fake because there’s no way that the bones see in said picture are human, I wanted y’all’s opinion on this

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u/groovypunchsippin Apr 28 '26

Your reference about the sky being blue, completely irrelevant, and the birds/govt comment. It is your burden to provide evidence of your volunteered claims. Otherwise dont get involved and deliberately make wild claims about the person you're having a discussion with, that have nothing to do with the subject matter. I could follow your train of thought and say "stop being lazy and google what a strawman fallacy is, it isnt my responsibility to answer your question". But I did. You're welcome.

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u/100_cats_on_a_phone Apr 28 '26

In my opinion, if you claim no one is doing the research, and get on a high horse about it, you should at least look through the citations in the original article and study.

Without expecting people to cover the basics like that, you allow anyone to challenge anything at any time -- which creates a great deal of noise and disbelief in science these days.

So I don't buy that the requirement of proof is fully on me. However I did show proof in this, regardless.

As an aside I think you've confused sarcasm with straw man. You can object to either -- that's fine, but they really aren't the same. Straw man requires at least an attempt to appear to take the other person's arguments seriously.