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No, that's not a reasonable thing you're saying. That you can say foo about A and foo about B, the fact that saying foo about B is false does not imply that saying foo about A is false.


Strawman. The argument is that they are very similar situations with similar downsides and shoddy defenses. The argument is not that the defenses being wrong about C proves that they're wrong about Go.


It's not a "strawman" when you're arguing with the logic somebody else has presented to you.


That was not their logic. They were not depending on a fallacy. The comparison with C was not the basis of the argument. They were merely giving an example of a similar situation.


It's not a similar situation.


That's an opinion, not a fact. Some people call it similar.




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