Fauxlution: a solution that, instead of addressing a problem, is designed to create the illusion that the problem is being addressed.
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I am thinking something more manufactured. Like the Gulf of Tonkin or the war on drugs.
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Ah, gotcha. Of course both fauxproblem & fauxlution could be summarised as misdirection. A term magicians know well.
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Isn't a straw man something different? A counter argument that is easily defeated.
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Hmm, I guess in the context of an argument a straw man is a fauxproblem? :)
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