New vid: argument from ignorance explained through mining

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I don't think it's pointless. I do it myself if I'm watching two people debate, on these open forums where everyone is welcome to chip in... I will point out when someone is committing a fallacy.

What's the harm in pointing out fallacious logic and then moving on?

I agree it's pedantic but sometimes I think pedantic is good. It often means technically correct.

And it avoids things like saying a person is implying something when they're not. It doesn't imply that the argument is wrong because of it at all. That would be to make an assumption about their intentions, which is one of the things that causes misunderstandings and strawmen in the first place.

I think the reality, from what I've observed here and else where on the internet, is that what it mostly does is piss off the person who is accused of using a fallacy and sidetrack the debate. You never hear professional debaters nitpick the fallacies of the other person. If it happened in a presidential debate the person doing it would just look like a douche.