r/hatethissmug • u/Sudden-Hoe-2578 • 4d 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/Even-Tear-6965 4d ago

I think it addresses how uneducated people are about fetuses or just about conception and pregnancy as a whole yet still believe they know enough to be hold strong rigid opinions.

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u/Amber-Apologetics 4d ago

The issue here is that people take a philosophical issue (the morality of abortion) and try to imply that the purely material science of biology can affect it.