r/hatethissmug • u/Sudden-Hoe-2578 • 10h ago

Non-fictional I HATE these "gotcha arguments"

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"Ohhh, look how I tricked this dumb dumb baby in my trap so now I am right and they are wrong. I'm so smaaart even though it does not adress the actual argument and adds nothing to the debate. They teach arabic numerals in school btw."

And these type of comments always get tons of likes

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u/wickedlessface 10h ago

Or you know, don't fall for it? It addresses the fact that you aren't knowledgeable enough about the topic. It's not that hard to use a failed gotcha in conversation against the user. Hell, it makes you sound 10 times better if you clock it.

so, skill issue.

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u/Gregori_5 7h ago

I don’t think you need to be able to distinguish a human fetus picture from all others to argue about a topic.

I can’t distinguish every real photo from space and every fake one, yet I can argue that NASA is a trustworthy organisation and they do in fact make pictures from space.