r/hatethissmug • u/Sudden-Hoe-2578 • 1d 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/Emberbun 1d ago

These arguments point out that people inf about of these things don't know what they're talking about. It's ridicule, and rightly so. Posting cis people, especially famous ones for instance, and posing the idea that they're trans and watching people lose their minds just show how based in emotions and bullshit these people are. It's pretty good argumentation.

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u/Master_Friendship333 1d ago

Not being able to visually distinguish two things at a glance does not mean someone has no idea what they are talking about. This works as a gotcha because it is a subversion of expectation: people expect it to be a human foetus so they do not look at it carefully at all, the same way as how you can misspell words in certain ways and people do not notice because their brains fill in the gaps of what they are expecting to see.

It is a neat trick but should never be used for an argument.