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What's wrong with this logic?A real man would get married because he's not afraid of commitment. |
asked on Friday, Aug 02, 2024 02:17:43 AM by Kris | |
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What's being wrong with this logic is that the person have an established belief and if reality refutes that belief the person distorts reality to fit the belief. When the belief in the person's head is that "men (should) like commitment", and then finds that some men don't like to be committed, then instead of changing the belief, they change reality and claim that those men can't be real men, they're something else. This thinking resembles no true scotsman or moralistic fallacy . Usually though it's just an expression of contempt for those individuals that do not comply with the standard (or stereotype) the person has or believes for a group of people. Instead of saying "I don't respect Y people who don't comply with my standard" they express it as "They don't deserve to be called Y". It could also be a way to manipulate someone to do something by attacking the person's sense of identity, setting an emotional dilemma of choosing either to maintain their identity and do something they don't want to do, or abstain from doing it and lose a part of their identity. So it's a manipulation tactic. In that particular example there is also the loaded word "afraid" which makes a person look weak. |
answered on Friday, Aug 02, 2024 06:16:44 AM by Kostas Oikonomou | |
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