>Can you back that lack of doubt up with anything? Or is it a function of your own eagerness to construct a straw-man?
You're asking whether a set of replies to a user named xadhominemx are straw man arguments when that user has taken each opportunity to live up to the implications of their user name.
I'm not sure I can help you if you are having trouble spotting the obvious bias in their replies.
In the universe of possible responses to the part of my original comment at the top of this thread that they extracted for their initial reply they specifically chose to attack the beliefs of the people characterizing them as "absurd".
When reminded that many cultures that do not have written histories have been found to convey their traditions and knowledge orally in stories and songs over many generations, they replied with another, more vicious cultural attack instead of a rational acknowledgement that perhaps they had forgotten something they may have had an opportunity to learn during some part of their education.
In that reply they suggested an alternate view that the people are rapists who abuse their spouses and neglect their children. This is another instance where they chose an attack over a rational conclusion supported by evidence.
When I challenged their objectivity they doubled down on their earlier replies confirming their own biases in the process.
Then they skipped the thread when I suggested that their biases were showing and that they should educate themselves.
I'm not seeing a straw man here.
The points that I made and they took issue to are supported by anthropological research and historical accounts and their suggestions have no supporting basis in fact when you dig into the links that I have provided and that others have provided on the thread.
xadhominemx clearly stepped into a thread with an agenda driven by their personal biases and when challenged with facts, skipped out without offering any support of their own biased agenda.
No straw man. Perhaps you agree with xadhominemx in some or all of the things they suggested and you stand ready to offer supporting arguments that they have chosen to dodge. I'll follow this thread for a while because I like interesting discussions.
I appreciate your reply and look forward to the next installment.
You're asking whether a set of replies to a user named xadhominemx are straw man arguments when that user has taken each opportunity to live up to the implications of their user name.
I'm not sure I can help you if you are having trouble spotting the obvious bias in their replies.
In the universe of possible responses to the part of my original comment at the top of this thread that they extracted for their initial reply they specifically chose to attack the beliefs of the people characterizing them as "absurd".
When reminded that many cultures that do not have written histories have been found to convey their traditions and knowledge orally in stories and songs over many generations, they replied with another, more vicious cultural attack instead of a rational acknowledgement that perhaps they had forgotten something they may have had an opportunity to learn during some part of their education.
In that reply they suggested an alternate view that the people are rapists who abuse their spouses and neglect their children. This is another instance where they chose an attack over a rational conclusion supported by evidence.
When I challenged their objectivity they doubled down on their earlier replies confirming their own biases in the process.
Then they skipped the thread when I suggested that their biases were showing and that they should educate themselves.
I'm not seeing a straw man here.
The points that I made and they took issue to are supported by anthropological research and historical accounts and their suggestions have no supporting basis in fact when you dig into the links that I have provided and that others have provided on the thread.
xadhominemx clearly stepped into a thread with an agenda driven by their personal biases and when challenged with facts, skipped out without offering any support of their own biased agenda.
No straw man. Perhaps you agree with xadhominemx in some or all of the things they suggested and you stand ready to offer supporting arguments that they have chosen to dodge. I'll follow this thread for a while because I like interesting discussions.
I appreciate your reply and look forward to the next installment.