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Old 01-17-2011, 09:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Mardur
Some dude is a douche because he spends a lot of time playing EQ to make money?
"A straw man argument is an informal fallacy based on misrepresentation of an opponent's position. To "attack a straw man" is to create the illusion of having refuted a proposition by substituting it with a superficially similar yet unequivalent proposition (the "straw man"), and refuting it, without ever having actually refuted the original position."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man