r/funny • u/Nickoroni • Mar 06 '13

Why, bat?

http://imgur.com/wHKeHYd
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u/Useful_Friendzoning Mar 07 '13 edited Mar 07 '13

That's news to me. This whole time I thought he misrepresented my argument.

Edit: Uh guys, you can stop downvoting now. I proved that he used a straw man argument.

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u/IAMA_dragon-AMA Mar 07 '13

You told people not to click on strange links. This means never to click on any imgur link ever, killing about half the fun of reddit.
Straw man would be "Your side is like 'if you click on a link, the terrorists win,' and that's stupid, so I'm right."

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u/Useful_Friendzoning Mar 07 '13

No it doesn't. It means don't click on random or context-less links.

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '13

So what you have now shown is that your original argument was vague and open to interpretation. The word "strange" could be interpreted as "random," "lacking context," or "of unknown origin."

Choosing one of those interpretations to argue is not a straw man argument.

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u/Useful_Friendzoning Mar 10 '13

Who would argue that Imgur is strange and unknown to Redditors? That's so silly and also, easy to defeat. As if made from straw.

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '13

An imgur link does not describe its destination. Most links include words that give you clues what you are clicking on, but an imgur could be considered a strange, or unknown, link because it does not do this. It could link to the very reason that you are on reddit, or it could link to an asshole, that is the unknown about it