OldTimeHockey said:
Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate said:
OldTimeHockey said:
herman said:
TLDR; the Leafs are better this season.
No they're not! Look at the Islanders in the standings!
Zzzzz. I schooled you in the other thread about strawman "arguments."
You're gonna have to work on your definition of "schooling" someone.
OK, let me spell it out for you here. Perhaps this explanation will be useful to others, because as I said in the other thread, it happens all the time.
1) I didn't throw a tantrum, not anything like one, in pointing out that the Isles are ahead of us in the standings.
2) You decided that posting a GIF of a tantrum is a devastating and witty takedown.
3) That, in crudest form, is how strawmen work. You exaggerate something someone has said, intentionally mischaracterizing it. What this does is subtly (well, in this case it's anything but) shift the conversation/argument from what was actually said/asserted to a caricature of what was said. Then, unless the person being attacked just ignores it (usually the best option), the conversation is now on a new plane, with the person being attacked having to reply to a bogus mischaracterization. The result is the conversation devolves into a chest-beating contest, as this one has. It ends up being about egos, not hockey (or whatever).
Resorting to strawmen is dishonest, lazy, and ? believe me ? incredibly boring after you've seen it a thousand times.
Your response in the other thread, OTOH, is valuable. You expressed honest disagreement. This kind of thing here is just a waste of everyone's time.