fallacies

#2

Strawman

It’s easier to knock down someone’s argument if you misrepresent it, putting words in the other person’s mouth.

 In my own words..

Knocking down someone’s argument is very easy because all you have to simply do is represent it in the wrong way by saying something that the person has never even said before.

 

In real life I have actually heard someone use the strawman fallacy. For example, I happened to be the one to use it because I have once tried to knock down my classmate’s argument about something in class in high school one day. In my religion class back in high school the class consisted of a lot of debates and personal opinions on different topics, because of course it was a religion class and any discussions that pertain to religious activities will never be non-argumentative.

When I was in class we were arguing on whether or not there is a heaven that actually exists in real life and whether or not we all go to heaven after we die. When my classmate commented on my opinion that heaven really does not exist, I argued back and said that she did not know what heaven was anyways or what it meant. However, she really never said any of those things in the first place. All she really said was that she does not believe that heaven exists.