Every non-retard can sniff out a shitty argument if they think about it hard enough. But explaining why they are shitty can be tiresome, so people made fallacies to refer to them when someone makes a shitty argument.
Appeal to Emotion: Arguing based on emotional reasoning instead of logical reasoning.
Appeal to Tradition: Arguing that things should be done a certain way because that's just the way things are.
Bandwagon: Arguing that if something is popular that means it's good.
Black-or-White: Arguing that you have to pick a side in everything, and if you're not on the "good" side that means you're on the "bad" side.
Middle Ground: Acting as if there is a middle ground in a debate in which one side is objectively correct and the other is objectively incorrect.
Kafka Trap (99% of Feminist arguments): Assuming that an accused person defending themselves is evidence of their guilt.
Red herring: Distracting from the main argument by bringing up an irrelevant point.
Straw Man: Constructing an intentionally illogical caricature of your opponent's positions to make them look easily disprovable (though sometimes some retard on Xitter or Bluesky will come and proudly announce themselves to be the strawman you constructed)
Slippery Slope: Arguing that if one thing is allowed to happen, it will lead to a larger sequence of events that will eventually end in disaster (ev&doe this is literally true)
Sunk Cost: Arguing that you might as well continue pursuing something that is clearly a waste of time and effort just because you've already put so much time and effort into it.
Tu quoque: Accusing your opponent of their actions contradicting their own argument.
Just world: Assuming that good things happen to good people and bad things happen to bad people, so if someone is in a bad situation it must mean they're a bad person.
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