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Originally Posted by pwalker8
They are favored tactics on the internet. But hey, it's a lot easier to try to deflect than admit you got caught with your hand in the cookie jar of rhetorical tricks.
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Just as it's a favored tactic/trick to deflect informal conversations toward esoteric meta-topics by "officially" naming/identifying rhetorical fallacies (which are, of course, almost entirely irrelevant outside of formal debate venues)--usually in an attempt to exaggerate the level of ones's self-proclaimed "hobby" expertise in a particular subject.