Allegations of harm: Unsupportive of homosexaulity causes suicide
Throughout the fake gay marriage debate - one technique was constantly used by supporters of homosexual marriage - If you call homosexuality a sin, wrong you will cause harm to teenagers who will then suicide. The purpose of this argument is to shut down any and all opposition to the idea that homosexuality is good for society. People were abused, posters torn-down by those who pushed gay marriage. No debate No questions No arguments and if you do open your mouth you are a bigot. There are many ways arguments can go wrong . Since the dawn of philosophy, scholars have fashioned lists of fallacies, probed suspect rhetorical devices, and teased out the troubling ways power interweaves with persuasion. These problematic properties can be wrong in a rational sense, making arguments invalid, and less likely to track truth. But they can also be wrong in an ethical sense. Argument can be deceitful, manipulative, coercive. In the twenty-first century, there is a new challenge to argument —...