fun fact: this is called “Reductio ad absurdum” and it’s a valid strategy in debate/rethoric.
It works great when countering stupid shit that sounds logical but really isn’t.
Nice try, thats a harry potter spell. You’re not gonna fool me
Homie really thought he was gonna slip it by ye
If you like debates, but don’t like stupid takes then you just like to stay sane
You can also refute it by inverting the logic. If you like milk chocolate but don’t like eating a bowl full of sugar, you like chocolate more than sugar. Curious what the name for that would be.
Imho you inverted the arguments but not the logic. You’re still using the same blend of false dichotomy and ig slippery slope.
So it would still be the same reductio ad absurdum
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Also perfectly valid in maths, and widely used
Isn’t it just a type of straw man argument?
Only if you drink chocolate with a straw.
I believe they’re talking about the responses, not the original post.
Which makes “debate” look a bit like a dog’s breakfast. But we live in a society, nobody said science is perfect and, ultimately, personal judgment trumps everything.
can i get a citation (since we’re debate lording) on what constitutes a “valid” argument and how this fits into that category?
Classical philosophy used it often,
The earlier dialogues of Plato (424–348 BCE), relating the discourses of Socrates, raised the use of reductio arguments to a formal dialectical method (elenchus), also called the Socratic method.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum
If you want a more modern source, here is a lecture on the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iepg5Q4rBAQ&list=PLPnZfvKID1Sje5jWxt-4CSZD7bUI4gSPS&index=53
I can recommend the entire lecture. It’s both entertaining and valuable.
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The first statement is actully true though, there is more sugar in milk chocolate than chocolate. the others are all obviously incorrect, there is more pickles, more chicken etc.
In cooking, the result is greater than the sum of its parts, and ingredients strength matters more than raw volume. Here’s a more direct example. You probably don’t enjoy chugging raw vanilla extract, and vanilla extract is highly concentrated in a small volume. Just because you don’t like the concentrated form and it makes up a small volume in recipes, doesn’t mean you don’t like vanilla.
yeah that’s a better analogy. lol @ the downvotes
It’s not true. You can like a product without liking all of its ingredients in their more pure form. I like bread, but I’m not a fan of choking down handfuls of flour or yeast.
but I’m not a fan of choking down handfuls of flour or yeast
You’re missing out, but whatever. More for the rest of us!
There’s also the dairy part
yeah but that’s the last ingredient.
If you love coke, but don’t like raw sugar, you actually like water more than coke.
If you love water, but don’t like the taste of raw hydrogen, you actually just like oxygen.
I wonder if liquid hydrogen has a taste. Like, if we could survive in a pressure chamber that can liquify hydrogen at room temp
If you love your screaming child but don’t like screaming, you actually like your child more than screaming
Could it be? 🤔
If you like the comment about the chicken more than the post about the chocolate, you like the roast more than the meat.
If you like taking a shit, but don’t like the shit, then you really like the feeling of something sliding in your anal cavity.
You mean sliding out unless you have some weird shits
What? You mean you don’t suck/ push them in/ out for a few minutes before releasing them into the wild to seek their fortune elsewhere?
But that one is true!
Sorry, I reached for the most extreme thing I could think of quickly.
If you love dark milk, then sugar love than actually more.
Probably so, let it.
Let them fight.
If you love to drink coffee, but don’t like to eat coffee beans directly as a food, you actually like hot water more than you like coffee.
I dont like coffee, i recently “discovered” drinking plain hot water during winter and its incredibly soothing.
It is good, and I sometimes drink it myself, but remember to be careful if drinking hot water outside in autumn or early winter.
If a leaf falls from a tree and lands in your cup, you’ll have discovered Tea - and last time that happened, some folk from a tiny island ended up with an empire covering half the planet.
I never actually thought about how tea was discovered, and my new headcanon is that some weird person was just drinking hot water, some leaves fell in their cup, and they were too lazy to just get some clean water
I want to know who the hell invented nettle tea. Like, let’s try putting the stinging leaves in water and ingesting them.
If you love table salt, but don’t like sodium metal, you actually like chlorine gas more than table salt.
If you love table salt but don’t lick it directly off the floor, you actually like table more than salt
This is why i exclusively eat baker’s chocolate, and I chew my coffee grounds. I’m not trying to dilute my precious foodstuffs with disgusting things like water or sugar.
What about your bodily fluids? What about ANY of our bodily fluids?
want some?
I’m not a monster, of course i take cream in my coffee ;)
If you like air but you don’t like pure oxygen, then you actually like nitrogen more than oxygen.
Anti Death Penalty US’ers really dont agree with you atm
I like pure oxygen just fine at 0.2 atm.
If you like vanilla ice cream, but don’t like chugging raw vanilla extract, then you like cream and sugar more than vanilla.
i mean, yes
straight up unflavoured (except for sugar) icecream is perfectly fine
chewing on a vanilla bean is probably not that amazing
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The vanilla orchid would like a word with you.
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stick that in your pipe and smoke it sonny boy
Meanwhile me chugging bottles of pure vanilla extract
You’re an alcoholic more than you like vanilla
Real tea lovers eat the dry herbs straight from the bag.
A bag? I just rip the leaves off a tree and suck on 'em.
I’m pretty sure I do like vinegar more than cucumbers
Big same
How can you dislike something as neutral as cucumber?
Tell my wife, “Hello”
I feel like the Internet has looped me.
I do like sugar more than chocolate, and I do like vinegar more than cucumbers.
The original statement isn’t wrong, it’s just not actually interesting and just trying to sound smart.
I don’t get it. Like if you like dark chocolate but not baker’s chocolate you like the sugar more than the chocolate.
Sounds like you get it. They’re all dunking on their dumb logic
