Good points https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/04/nick-kristof-argues-with-straw-men-about-guns-straw-men-win/
New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof. (CBS via YouTube)
If you can’t win an argument even when you stack the deck in your favor . . .
Yesterday, the New York Times’ Nick Kristof posted a column that purported to tell his readership “how to win an argument about guns.” I’m interested to read good arguments from the other side, so I clicked eager to find how Kristof would best an informed gun-rights advocate in debate.
The short answer, it turns out, is that he wouldn’t.
The column’s pattern is simple: Kristof posits a primitive caricature of a gun-rights argument, delivers a thoroughly inadequate response designed to settle the issue, and then repeats the cycle. In other words, he erects one straw man after another and fails to best any of them.
New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof. (CBS via YouTube)
If you can’t win an argument even when you stack the deck in your favor . . .
Yesterday, the New York Times’ Nick Kristof posted a column that purported to tell his readership “how to win an argument about guns.” I’m interested to read good arguments from the other side, so I clicked eager to find how Kristof would best an informed gun-rights advocate in debate.
The short answer, it turns out, is that he wouldn’t.
The column’s pattern is simple: Kristof posits a primitive caricature of a gun-rights argument, delivers a thoroughly inadequate response designed to settle the issue, and then repeats the cycle. In other words, he erects one straw man after another and fails to best any of them.
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