The worst argument you've ever heard

[jhoroz]

"No u!"

-90% of the internet

 

[thejackyl]

Let's see: Recently?

"Why are you playing The Walking Dead? That's such a shitty game."
"Because I enjoy it, Why do you think it's shitty?"
"Because I haven't played it."


He does this for pretty much EVERY game I play. He'll ask me why I play a "shitty" game, and his reasoning behind why it's so shitty is because he's never played it.

or

"You should play Forge, It's such an epic game!"
"Why's that? How long have you been playing?"
"I haven't even tried it yet, but it's the best game ever."
**He buys it, and gifts me the extra copy, and we play a game together, and it's pretty terrible to be honest, though I did like the premise. It just needs a LOT more polish**

 

[zelda2fanboy]

"... but the book was way better." It drives me crazy. Movies are their own thing. Books are their own thing. If a movie sucks, the book can't make it better and vice versa.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

"I'm sorry, I just can't watch black-and-white movies. They just seem too old."

I've heard variations of this argument and it just seems really limiting and stupid. It's fine if you don't want to watch black and white shows: just means more time for me to spend on my own watching Twlight Zone and 12 Angry Men for the ump-teenth time...also the silent Phantom of the Opera, that too.

I look forward to a future where people says "I just can't watch anything if it's in 2D" [/sarcasm]

 

[Jenvas1306]

anything someone ever said against transgender

 

[Vausch]

"They were associated with [thing that some group likely has a thing against already] therefore it was the cause of [the horrible tragedy the person was involved in]".

Latest example: Mass Effect was responsible for the shooting in Connecticut.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

"Because that's the way it is"
I can't coem up with enought situations people have said this to me and thought I'd just accept that without any backup info, whatsoever...

I've got to second this one. Just because that's the way it is doesn't mean that it isn't a problem.

 

[ThisGuyLikesNoTacos]

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Not_as_bad_as

Oh, how I loathe it when people use this.

Not as bad as something else? That. Doesn't. Change. Shit.

 

[(sic) humor]

"Well, that's just your opinion."

AND I'VE PUT A GOOD DEAL OF EFFORT INTO EXPLAINING WHY IT IS MORE VALID THAN YOURS.

Did you think I read my beliefs off of fortune cookies? I have them for a reason. Of course it's an opinion (unless we're discussing something that's been scientifically proven). Let's try to figure out if it's a good opinion to have or not.

 

[emeraldrafael]

I see your friends point (its still stupid, but I do see it), and i tend to agree on second amendment/gun laws to where I have a feeling of relative indifference when i hear someone who before a tragedy had no care in the world now suddenly wants to sound like they've been on it their entire lives.

...

Other then that though, the guy who did the I deserve a tip for making your pizza thread not long ago, when someone tells me you cant let guys marry because it ruins the sanctity when all marriages (in the us) end with a 50% divorce rate, when a flyers fan tells me he/shes more of a fan because he's passionate (read an asshole), or when a detroit fan tells me they're so much better than a pens fan because they support their team and we almost lost ours twice int he same time frame they usually like to quote (which is why the tigers are pretty much on their last leg as team. cause you know, its easy to support a team when its winning), various little things like that.

But I think the worst was someone tried to tell me that Im less than them because they live in an income bracket (or more their parents do) thats roughly over twice (about $70K) of what I live in with my mother. Yes, you're such a better person than me because your parents make your money and give you anyhting you want. Please, tell me how great you are that youve never worked a day in your life while ive worked in entry level occupations and in a factory.

 

[Twilight_guy]

The first argument that springs to mind is one from this forum. Specifically it links the 'decline' in video games to directly to arcades not being popular anymore, by using a series of dubious or unproven assertions that link a train of thought together. It was a cousin of a slippery slope and an oversimplification that has stuck with me as one of the really weird arguments on this site.

 

[NemotheElvenPanda]

Comparing my attraction to other men with a pedophile to a five year old child or a psychopath to a murder victim...granted most "arguments" against homosexuality/same-sex marriage tend to fall under slippery slope fallacies, falls equivalences, appeals to emotion ("It's just gross/wrong/sinful") and so forth, but it takes great leap of logic to think that a relationship between consenting adults is just like child-molestation.

 

[Ryotknife]

There's currently a petition about having a gun in every classroom to protect against attacks such as happened in Connecticut...

Which is really freaking stupid when you think about it...

These guns will have to be easily accessible so that when an attacker unexpectedly comes in the teacher can react swiftly and take out the weapon before the shooter can adequately react. It's no use if the teacher has to open up a securely locked container with several safeties and then assemble the weapon whilst the shooter is killing his or her students. And we all know that the combination of children and easily accessible guns never have and never will cause any serious safety issues.

Should they decide to be very extra careful and actually secure these weapons there's of course always the possibility of a teacher in another classroom taking the time to access his or her weapon and rush over to attack the shooter, since clearly the best course of action in that scenario is to rush out leaving his or her students alone to engage the attacker instead of for example evacuating those students whilst they're still in relative safety. Engaging in an open firefight in the middle of a school is clearly the superior option that will lead to the least amount of casualties compared to getting your students the fuck out of there, it's not like stray bullets ever hit bystanders or anything.

im against that idea, if only because teachers have one of the most stressful jobs in our country right now due to parents, media, and government painting them as terrible people (not to mention dealing with kids). Give them tazers.

 

[Rawne1980]

"You have a different opinion than my own and I am a giant clitoris so i'm going to call you a troll"....

 

[Jenvas1306]

anything someone ever said against transgender

^This kind of thinking.

'Your argument is incompatible with my viewpoint, therefore it is wrong and I am going to dismiss it.'

It's actually 'your argument is only hate/fear and intolerance driven, with lack of fact or knowledge, therefore I am going to ignore it'
which is a statement, not an argument for or against anything, so you missed the point.

Btw, in it's extended version my original post would be: 'anything someone ever said against transgender, homosexuals or equal rights for people with other skincolors than white,'

It's not about viewpoints, it's about humanism...

 

[Acton Hank]

Worst argument ever:'guns don't kill people, people kill people'.

I don't see how the argument is inaccurate.

I'm pretty sure that if you destroyed all the guns in the world the murder rate would plummet for a short while and then people would just start killing each other again with baseball bats, chainsaws, knives and other common household appliances.

 

[Jenvas1306]

Yes, let's lump all the arguments from one set of viewpoints together and dismiss them without actually listening to them. >.>

This is not to say I think there would be much substance, however dismissing something without even considering it seems rather silly.

Sorry, but my life is too short to consider every stupid argument, like if you tried to convince me the earth was a disc or a cube, I wouldnt waste time on listening. same goes for talking me into liking twilight or bananas. I just dont like both (for different reasons).
Everything that is anti-humanistic will hardly be considered by me.
But you do what you find right, just dont bother me with it.

 

[Acton Hank]

Worst argument ever:'guns don't kill people, people kill people'.

My favorite comebacks:
Yes, but you cannot commit mass murder with a chinese throwing star.
From this day forth, people will not be permitted to own guns, as they will use them to kill other people, as is their nature.

That wouldn't work, people would just switch back to the more gruesome and bloody ways we used to kill each other in the past.

In this respect not having gun control would probably be the more "humane" thing to do, as a bullet to the brain is generally accepted as being less painful than a knife to the chest.

EDIT: Ok, something went seriously wrong when quoting that post.

 

[Little Woodsman]

Please keep in mind that the person who said the following is a black woman from Haiti, living in the United States.
She once told me "No country is justified in going to war. Ever. For any reason."
When I pointed out that both Haiti and the United States eliminated the enslavement of black people through armed
conflict, she stuck to her guns and said that it would have been better for black people to still be kept as slaves
than to have had wars to end slavery.
Yeah.
It still makes my stomach hurt to think about that conversation.

 

[Proverbial Jon]

Slippery slope arguments annoy the fuck out of me.Just because one thing happens does not mean that something else,often completley unrelated,is going to follow

For example I've actually heard people say that if we allow gay marriage then before too long we'll have to remove the age of consent and legalise beastiality

Specially for you:


OT: My favourite is: "Everything happens for a reason," when something tragic happens. It's maddening, grown people say this and yet all it does is communicate to me that the person in question suffers from a childlike naivety and a near-dangerous delusion that there's some sort of plan laid out for them. Shit stuff just happens sometimes, ya know?

The problem is, most of the people I know that say it aren't even into all that religious/spiritual stuff so what higher power are they basing this insane notion on?