The phrase strawman has become the easiest, most convenient word in the English language to utilize to basically go "Nah Nah Nah Nah, I know you are but what am I?"
It should simply be obsoleted.
Example: I'm losing an argument. Accuse the other guy of using strawman points. Yay, now I'm winning!!
Weak DWV. Very weak.
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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
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