Although of course that only matters if you were actually planning to apply your principles consistently, and who has the time for that?
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the thing is, maybe you weren't planning to, but then other people hear about them and decide they're going to be so much better of a good person than you by applying them consistently, and the next fucking thing you know you've got vegans
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OK, now you made me curious... Somebody deems it a fallacy?
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yeah, it happens, as it would kind of have to given the general tendency to think that labeling something means you've rebutted it some people even publish "educational" articles about it: https://study.com/academy/answer/what-is-an-example-of-the-reductio-ad-absurdum-fallacy.html …
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But what people often mean by reductio ad absurdum is in fact the straw man fallacy. (This is a great example of begging the question.)
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reduction ad absurdum is every mathematician's favorite NON-fallacy. Its applicability in the real world is extremely limited, because almost any human idea, when examined closely and applied carelessly, reduces to an absurdity.
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The fallacy is 'strawman' when you pretend that you're applying them consistently but you're actually changing the meaning by a shade or two and/or taking the cliff's-note version literally in order to get absurd results.
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OTOH fallacies are useless as a concept anyway because it's too easy to pattern-match things to their forms. OTOOH principles in general are a stupid way to make decisions. You can't math or logic with human-readable sentences.
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