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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 5750724" data-attributes="member: 177">&quot;A straw man is a component of an argument and is an informal fallacy based on misrepresentation of an opponent's position, twisting his words or by means of (often false) assumptions. To 'attack a straw man' is to create the illusion of having refuted a proposition by replacing it with a superficially similar yet nonequivalent proposition (the 'straw man'), and refuting it, without ever having actually refuted the original position. Generally, the straw man is a highly exaggerated or over-simplified version of the opponent's original statement, which has been distorted to the point of absurdity. This exaggerated or distorted statement is thus easily argued against, but is a misrepresentation of the opponent's actual statement.&quot;Basically, he's saying that you overstated the position of others - nobody said anything equivalent to, &quot;...my character should be 'just as good' as you character in all things, except I use magic and you use a sword....&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 5750724, member: 177"] [I]"A straw man is a component of an argument and is an informal fallacy based on misrepresentation of an opponent's position, twisting his words or by means of (often false) assumptions. To 'attack a straw man' is to create the illusion of having refuted a proposition by replacing it with a superficially similar yet nonequivalent proposition (the 'straw man'), and refuting it, without ever having actually refuted the original position. Generally, the straw man is a highly exaggerated or over-simplified version of the opponent's original statement, which has been distorted to the point of absurdity. This exaggerated or distorted statement is thus easily argued against, but is a misrepresentation of the opponent's actual statement." [/I] Basically, he's saying that you overstated the position of others - nobody said anything equivalent to, "...my character should be 'just as good' as you character in all things, except I use magic and you use a sword...." [/QUOTE]

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