Sentences with phrase «straw men»

There's a conversation, a serious one, to be had about fracking, about the machinations of energy corporations, about capitalism — but it's rich that these wealthy white guys think the best way to go about inspiring debate is by presenting straw men at play in the heart of hicksploitation U.S.A..

In order to do that, you of course are going to get some of the straw men arguments and a lot of the critics that I've come across are the armchair nutritionist types.

I'm left with an argument that they're not responding to and instead you get these kind of straw men arguments that you described.

Brendan, I can understand that, too, but mostly because many climate scientists tend to believe rumors, straw men and unwarranted generalizations about climate skeptics rather than checking who's actually saying what.

Unfortunately, he does so mainly by criticizing the views of three straw men: Adam Smith, the 18th - century author of The Wealth of Nations, and 20th - century thinkers Frederick Taylor, the inventor of management science, and B. F. Skinner, a pioneer of behavioral psychology.

As with so many of his policy speeches during the leadership election, Miliband's case is characterised by hastily assembled straw men that are then summarily burned.

You erect straw men so as to knock them down, why attribute attitudes to me which I do n`t endorse.I have not suggested that the Coulson affair is more important to people than their day to day concerns.

Now that you have been made aware do you really still think that this is all to do with mediocre students choosing fatuous courses at third rate institutions or are you merely populating the discussion with ill equipped straw men?

Clinton's 2016 campaign and the DNC allegedly used state chapters as straw men to launder as much as $ 84 million in an effort to circumvent campaign donation limits, and the FEC ignored complaints exposing the practice, a new lawsuit claims.

Like when you let out that you were using straw men in these conversations that were really just you and not another person.

Presumably those who attack straw men are wannabe cereal killers.

One group must offer a disclaimer before they open their mouth; the opposing group is ready with their straw men.

Look if all you want to do is beat up straw men, I'm not going to interfere, but I will say that I'm mightily disappointed.

Comments like the ones you refer to are straw men meant to take away from the real weight (and truth) of your words.

Don't bring up straw men, twist words and avoid the issue.

It's easy to make straw men and stereotypes of people who hold opposing views, but when «those other people» are your trusted friends, it's harder to dismiss their ideas.

Having employed the red herring, Miola stoops to erect straw men to defame my scholarship.

I don't see any point in setting up straw men that are easily knocked down.

I will never cease attacking badly argued opinions, illogical statements or red herrings, straw men or any other logical fallacy.

some of your posts have been straw men arguments against total depravity that are real easy for you knock down and in reality the text has nothing to do with inability and no Calvinist believes it either

why don't you loud - mouthed opinion - makers on both sides stop setting up straw men to rail against and get a life?

I think you should quit building straw men.

Without him, we'd be accused of making up straw men to illustrate some of his preposterous claims and fantasies.

Neither does one improve the argument by setting up and knocking down straw men as a substitute for answering the real question.

Otherwise, you are simply erecting straw men so you can beat them down.

Sooner or later, all of us are going to have to pay for our excessive rhetoric and for the ways in which we misrepresent our opponents in a desire to create straw men or to perpetuate the ritual warfare that goes on between rival theological positions.

I am perpetually fighting against straw men in this blog, where so many act like the OT Israelites just got bored, and decide, out of the blue to make up «scape - goating» to engage in genocide in the name of God.

What you are doing is indeed an argument against Christianity, but the argument is literally nothing but a series of straw men.

It just seems to me you are in a struggle to define yourself and taking shots at a bunch of straw men.

This way, they can not be accused of making up straw men to dismantle - beliefs straight from the horse's mouth, as it were.

There are trolls for every ideological persuasion, and they are easy targets — straw men, really, for people who disagree with the viewpoint a troll supposedly represents.

All so you could introduce completely fallacious straw men arguments we never made (who mentioned Dispensationalism or the Rapture here?)

To know our spiritual situation is something, for it at least saves us from dealing with straw men.

There's bound to be some sloppy theology or straw men or generalities in there, and I don't want to stifle conversation by claiming that God is somehow responsible for the content.

It's easy to knock down straw men, which is what «The God Delusion» did delightfully.

I see straw men employed all the time, most frequently with the topics of politics and religion, and if you haven't seen it, well, I'm not sure I would have much faith in your sense of discernment.

Others, such as the chapter on «objections» to the claim that we can be certain of at least some moral knowledge, are written in dialogue form, opening the way for hostile critics to suggest that Budziszewski constructs and demolishes his own straw men.

If you want to post straw men and bowl them over that is your perogative.

for lack of good talking points, you concoct 2 straw men arguments.

it is so easy for even a first year theology students to show all the errors of reasoning and the straw men in most of the author's statements.

Actually try arguing with them — and the real scholars, mind you, not straw men.

Colin, you've been repeatedly discredited as a bigoted, illogical constructor of straw men.

Straw men are often invoked: feminists denigrate mothers; they want to destroy family life; their so - called «achievements» have made women more miserable than ever.

But Baden, don't let bigger facts or even biology stop you in your grand leaps to conclusions, or from setting up false straw men as your way to refute Genesis.

Bill, When you incorrectly state that Colin has «been repeatedly discredited as a bigoted, illogical constructor of straw men».

In «Ontario's Tax on the Rich: Grasping at Straw Men,» Associate Director of Research Alexandre Laurin finds taxpayers» behavioural responses will reduce revenue over the long run by more than the province can expect to collect from the tax hike.

In reality, they are straw men for corporate performance with no real connection to the economics of the business.

In reality, they are straw men for corporate performance measurement with no real connection to the economics of the business.

What some experts are doing is putting up a straw man, pointing to those extreme cases in which some people let the development of the business plan become an end in itself — something that gets in the way of business rather than helping to optimize it.

But he says MJ Ervin's study is little more than an attempt to create a straw man argument.