Duchess gets a rude wake up call - The Straw Man Argument

Bruno scares Duchess by using the J word out of nowhere!

But yet again, somehow Duchess manages to twist things to make Bruno look like the bad guy!

She really is the master of persuasion. Learn how Duchess puts Bruno in his place with our Straw Man Activity Pack! 

Straw Man Argument in a Nutshell

The Straw Man Argument doesn't attack what you actually said. It invents a worse version of it and attacks that instead.

Bruno asks Duchess to get a job because the bills are piling up. Simple. Reasonable. Hard to argue with. So Duchess doesn't argue with it. She replaces it with something she can argue with. Suddenly Bruno doesn't want her to get a job. He wants her to become a slave to the system, working until she drops dead, because he can't manage money.

That's not what Bruno said. Not even close. But now he's on the back foot defending something he never argued. That's the Straw Man. And Duchess is very, very good at it.

See all 24 fallacies in What Are the Most Common Logical Fallacies?

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