[August]

Originally Posted by SUBMAN1

I have a curiosity however - Is Strawman your nickname for August? I keep seeing you post that and I am not sure what it is meant by it. Without assuming, I am sure you can enlighten us?

-S

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This article is about the logical fallacy. For other uses, see Straw man (disambiguation). A straw man argument is a logical fallacy based on misrepresentation of an opponent's position. To "set up a straw man" or "set up a straw-man argument" is to create a position that is easy to refute, then attribute that position to the opponent. A straw-man argument can be a successful rhetorical technique (that is, it may succeed in persuading people) but it is in fact misleading, since the argument actually presented by the opponent has not been refuted.
Its name is derived from the use of straw men in combat training where a scare crow is made in the image of the enemy with the single intent of attacking it(see [1]). It is occasionally called a straw dog fallacy [2] or a scarecrow argument.

Scandium is wrong though. I just asked a few questions. I did not "create a postion that is easy to refute". He's just trying to side step those questions about the UN and Hez defacto sharing bases.