{"id":4015,"date":"2013-02-18T22:09:36","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T03:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4015"},"modified":"2013-02-18T22:09:36","modified_gmt":"2013-02-19T03:09:36","slug":"civility-for-jerks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4015","title":{"rendered":"Civility for jerks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mallard Fillmore’s got a nice way to capture the civility problem — with a straw man followed by a\u00c2\u00a0 tu quoque!<\/p>\n

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If President Obama charged the Republicans with wanting to kill the elderly and starve the poor, I don’t remember it.\u00c2\u00a0 In fact, the only kill the elderly lines I remember were the old ‘death panel’ charges a few years back. (This, then, is more likely a hollow man<\/a>.) So a hyperbolic line of argument to begin, but doubling down with the fallacies is… well… uncivil?<\/p>\n

A few months back Rob Talisse and I took a shot<\/a> at making the case that civility wasn’t a matter of being nice and calm, but a matter of having well-run argument.\u00c2\u00a0 That sometimes requires goodwill, but more importantly civility is a matter of being able to argue appropriately when everyone in the conversation hates everyone else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mallard Fillmore’s got a nice way to capture the civility problem — with a straw man followed by a\u00c2\u00a0 tu quoque! If President Obama charged the Republicans with wanting to kill the elderly and starve the poor, I don’t remember it.\u00c2\u00a0 In fact, the only kill the elderly lines I remember were the old ‘death … Continue reading Civility for jerks<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,413,204,12],"tags":[2011,1171,1964,801],"class_list":["post-4015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tu-quoque","category-hollow-man","category-specious-allegations-of-fallacy","category-straw-man","tag-hollow-man","tag-mallard-fillmore","tag-straw-man","tag-tu-quoque-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4017,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4015\/revisions\/4017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}