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What’s the best logical fallacy? – Left Coast Bias

What’s the best logical fallacy? – Left Coast Bias

I started to be snarky and post this to a particular thread that was annoying me.  But I thought twice, and will post it here, in a vacuum.

  • A famous Logic professor told me the Appeal to Authority Fallacy is the best.

  • Anyone who doesn’t say the Ad Hominem Fallacy is best is a poopyhead.

  • Argument from Repetition Fallacy is the best. Repetition. Argument from. Best.

  • Begging the Question Fallacy is the best because it is superior to all others.

  • Cherry Picking Fallacy is the best; this message is all you need, to see that.

  • Circular Argument Fallacy is best because nothing is better than an argument that is circular.

  • Either the False Dilemma Fallacy, or pure evil, is best, ergo False Dilemma.

  • Everyone is saying the Bandwagon Fallacy is best, so it must be.

  • False Equivalence Fallacy is no worse than any other and therefore is the best.

  • Have you or have you not stopped using the best: the Loaded Question Fallacy?

  • I bet double my last bet the next one will say the Gambler’s Fallacy is best.

  • I just heard about the Recency Bias Fallacy. It’s gotta be the best one ever.

  • I mistyped another fallacy, so Hasty Generalization Fallacy is the best.

  • I used to think Stockholm Syndrome Fallacy wasn’t best but I’m warming up to it.

  • I’ve had success with Proof by Example Fallacy as the best. This is Exhibit A.

  • If Affirming the Consequent Fallacy is the best, then I wrote this. And I did.

  • If the Slippery Slope Fallacy isn’t the best, pretty soon we’ll have anarchy.

  • If you loved me you’d let me call the Emotional Appeal Fallacy the best.

  • It can’t be a best list if you leave out the No True Scotsman Fallacy.

  • It’s your job to prove the Burden of Proof Fallacy ISN’T the best. Not mine.

  • Super geniuses Dunning & Kruger invented the best Fallacy, Overconfidence Bias.

  • The Appeal to Nature Fallacy is best – it’s only natural.

  • The Black and White Fallacy is either the best, or else all logic is wrong.

  • The Ipse Dixit Fallacy is best, full stop, case closed.

  • The Red Herring Fallacy is the best because, oh look, a squirrel!

  • The Straw Man Fallacy is the best because my opponent intends to outlaw it.

  • The Sunk Cost Fallacy is best and it’s too late to pick a different one anyway.

  • The Survivorship Fallacy is best because it saved my life.

  • The long-neglected Appeal to Pity Fallacy is the one to support as best.

  • To deny Moral Equivalence Fallacy as the best is just like robbing a bank.

  • The Tautology Fallacy is best. When outlawed only outlaws will have Tautologies.

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