Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 23 Jul 2013 19:51:03 -0500 | Subject | Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML | From | Felipe Contreras <> |
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On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Daniel Phillips <d.phillips@partner.samsung.com> wrote: > On 07/20/2013 12:36 PM, Felipe Contreras wrote: >> I think you need more than "hope" to change one of the fundamental >> rules of LKML; be open and honest, even if that means expressing your >> opinion in a way that others might consider offensive and colorful. > > Logical fallacy type: bifurcation. You can be open and honest without > being offensive or abusive.
You are mistaken, that is not what the false dichotomy fallacy means. I'm not saying you have to be A (open and honest), or B (polite), and that you can't be both, if that's what you arguing (which seems to be the case), you are wrong, and to argue against that position would be a straw man fallacy.
Your mistaken fallacy seems to be that you think one can *always* be both A (open and honest), and B (polite), I'm not sure if there's a name for that fallacy, but you don't provide any evidence for that claim.
And even supposing that such an obvious fallacy (that one can *always* be both open and honest, and polite) was true, the fact that something *can* be done, doesn't mean it *should* be done.
-- Felipe Contreras
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