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Simply put, you don't understand what you are talking about (and I knew immediately when you asked me to name names, despite the fact that is completely irrelevant to your own argument), are totally misapplying the fallacy, and are throwing me under the bus for your ignorance while calling me names. Why the hell should I cooperate with that, especially considering you did not cooperate with me by clarifying your position so I didn't have to read between the lines to figure out how ridiculous your argument is?
That makes a whole lot of sense. NOT. In essence you are saying that my request for examples and names made you NOT want to cooperate. Whatever.
But you know what, I'm a glutton for punishment, so you want cooperation, here's your cooperation:
Apparently, both of us are gluttons for punishment to continue this silly-ass conversation in which it appears that we are at a stalemate (and have been for some time).
Correct way to apply the fallacy you referenced: Someone says "You don't like heroin? Well tylenol is a drug. If you want to get rid of heroin, you've got to get rid of tylenol."
Yes they are both drugs, but there is no logical connection to the level of damage one drug does over the other: people don't use tylenol to get high, and heroin causes significantly more damage. In order to agree with that statement, you need to make a whole lot of wild and incorrect assumptions about tylenol, namely that it will cause the same or close to the same amount of damage as heroin.
Sure, that seems to be one application of the false equivalencies fallacy.
What I'm saying in light of that fallacy: Beartrolls and bulltrolls are both trolls. Trolls are trolls. If you want to complain about/ban some trolls, you've got to be willing to ban them all.
Yes, probably we agree again that if there is a desire (or policy) to ban trolls, then surely all trolls should be banned, and NOT be banned based on the direction of their trolling, but merely because of the fact that they are trolling. But, having said that, there still probably are NOT any examples of bull trolls, but one has to look at the contents of their posts and NOT merely a label.
The only assumption being made is that both beartrolls and bulltrolls are trolls, which doesn't seem like that much of a leap of faith considering the word "troll" is in the name.
meaningless to discuss this because whether some poster is a troll or NOT depends on conduct that rises to the level of trolling - NOT whether the contents of the message is bearish or bullish.
Your fallacy only applies when there is no clear connection, which means, as I have showcased as best I can, that it does not apply here. If you don't get it after all of that, well I just don't know what to tell you other than you are wrong.
My fallacy? I did NOT invent any fallacy - instead, you fell into the fallacy of false equivalencies by making it. To my understanding, you have NOT really explained your way out of it, but that's fine.. NO problema.. We can just agree to disagree because this whole discussion seems to be devolving into meaninglessness and seems to be just arguing for the sake of arguing.. which I have NO real interest in such (my only interest would be to clarify, if needed, and further clarification does NOT really seem to be needed at this point).
Now if you want to argue whether bulltrolls exist or not, that's another issue. My point is simply that I did not commit the logical fallacy you are accusing me of, and if you truly understood that logical fallacy, you would know that.
Seems that we agree that if there were a policy against trolling that it should be enforced in spite of the contents, but just by the fact that the poster is engaging in trolling conduct. Sure, we seem to agree on that.
Nonetheless, it still seems to me that if you had been attempting to assert that there were some kinds of bulltrolls in reality, which I still doubt to be the case. Anyhow, we do NOT really need to get into this further because it seems that we have beaten this troll to death - whether bear or bull.