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I am your host, Michael Covel.

Not filtered, raw, honest.

That's my passion.

Across humanity these days, we are left with almost always fallacy, fallacies, logical fallacies.

For example, the straw man, a common form of argument. We see it all the time. It's based on giving the

impression of refuting an opponent's argument while actually refuting an argument that was not

presented by that opponent. Literally, almost every criticism I've ever seen of my work

is something like that. Now the people that do it

maybe don't know they do it or they don't have a better argument or they're triggered in some

way and I'm going to come back to that in a moment, the triggering. But I see these types of

fallacies all the time.

I'm sure you do in your own life. It's the bane of modern life that we all have to sit

through such nonsense. I mean, politics is literally making us stupid in terms of communicating

with each other. And I'm going to hit back on that in a moment, too.

Another type of fallacy.

Ad hominum.

This is short for argumentum ad hominum,

a fallacious argumentative strategy

whereby an argument is rebutted by attacking

the character, motive, or other attribute of the person making the argument or persons associated with the argument rather than attacking the substance of the argument itself.

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