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[HereSince1628]

127. Name calling lacks eruditon...seemly, so does your understanding of "Straw man"

"straw man, noun : a weak or imaginary argument or opponent that is set up to be easily defeated" http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/straw%20man

I claim no imaginary or weak opponent. I claim what is blatantly obvious in your own words. Your argument is chauvinistic and it uses as its fulcrum of disparagement the mentally ill.

Based on what you've written downstream in this thread it is also apparent that you are employing there, as here, the solipsistic notion that your opinion is all that matters regarding the nosology of mental illness.

Everyone gets to have an opinion. Not everyone gets to define illness for others in a manner that is deemed credible and authoritative by others. I understand that this could be an ego-level blow to a person's self-esteem but, within society, and group conversation it is also pretty much operationally true.



So, it seems you've chalked up a rather remarkable list of fallacies and rhetorical miscues in surprisingly few sentences.

Except for your being aroused and needing to display your discomfort and thereby assuage your hurt feelings by attacking others, I see no useful rhetorical purpose to your persistent name calling.

Aren't the people you are calling names the same people made iconic in your username? Why is it that some of the 99% are useful only as disparaging adjectives applied to others of the 99%? Something feels wrong about your sense of eqalite'.

Perhaps you could explore your contributions to this point and refine them with the edit or self-delete functions?