RE: "Men's rights activists are pig misogynists,men don't have issues!"
May 10, 2016 at 2:11 am
(This post was last modified: May 10, 2016 at 2:13 am by Excited Penguin.)
(May 10, 2016 at 2:06 am)The_Empress Wrote:(May 10, 2016 at 2:03 am)Excited Penguin Wrote: You could've said certain feminists aren't true feminists if you also pointed out a specific objective rule for why that is and you wouldn't be committing a NTS fallacy. It only works if you're excluding certain members of a group with no reason.
Maybe, maybe not, but it's not really worth it in a conversation with someone as shallow as pool.
If the person who pointed out that no true Scotsman would do a certain thing then explained why that is by pointing out that the counterexample someone gave to him was a false one, since that particular Scotsman wasn't really a Scotsman by nationality, but an Italian, how would that be fallacious? It's the same with feminism, if you can reasonably argue why someone doesn't fit the description of a feminist you're in the clear.
I find that people tend to fear ridicule so much they avoid certain common pitfalls when there's no need to do so.