Automoderated users, Autopatrolled users, Bureaucrats, Comment administrators, Confirmed users, Moderators, Rollbackers, Administrators
213,577
edits
(Ross isn't right even in the most technical sense -- owning someone's living body is slavery, which is illegal. Furthermore, as he originally obtained Banner's consent by fraud, he doesn't actually have any consent.) |
m (Robkelk moved page Straw Man Has a Point to Strawman Has a Point: As per the vote at Topic:X9dz2xh1c7wzk9es) |
||
(39 intermediate revisions by 7 users not shown) | |||
Line 1:
{{trope}}
{{quote|''"You can't have heroes and villains when the wrong side is making the best sense."''
|'''[[Roger Ebert]]''', [http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID{{=}}/20020125/REVIEWS/201250303/1023 reviewing] ''[[I Am Sam]]''}}
An author sets up a [[Straw Character]], or some other kind of [[The War On Straw|straw-man argument]]. The author attempts to demolish said man of straw. And then, sometimes [[Fridge Logic|later]], sometimes right away, the reader realizes that [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|the strawman has a point]]; that is, the straw-man argument is not as weak as the author intended it to be, sometimes to the point of being better than the "correct" argument.
Line 22 ⟶ 23:
See also: [[Informed Wrongness]], [[No Mere Windmill]], [[Alternative Character Interpretation]], [[Do Not Do This Cool Thing]], [[Broken Aesop]]. Has some similarities to [[Affectionate Parody]], if you think about it.
{{noreallife|There are no talking strawmen in Real Life, just bad arguments.}}
{{examples on subpages}}
{{reflist}}
[[Category:
[[Category:Index Has a Point]]
[[Category:The War
|