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What kind of logical fallacy is this? What is it called?
Person A: Your society is an antichrist society because you do not worship Jesus.
Person B: So you mean we should worship Jesus and not his father. But that is not true.
Now here you can see that the last part of Person B's statement (i.e. after the conjunction) is added by him from out of nowhere. Person A never said that someone should not worship Jesus' father. There is also no established conclusion between the two people that only ONE of the two deities should be worshiped.
So what logical fallacy is B showing up? What is it called?
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- Anonymous8 years agoFavorite Answer
This might be considered a "Straw Man Fallacy." Which is a type of informal fallacy.
The straw man fallacy is when you change your opponent's proposition into one that is:
1) not the proposition made (i.e. A said "Your society dosesn't worship Jesus." B turned this into: "Your society should not worship God.")
and...
2) a proposition that is easier to argue against.