Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-36626598-20181213111734/@comment-37405647-20191114230625

GiverOfThePeace wrote: Got your discord and you hit me with gish gallop yet again so we shall continue this in a VC. Got your discord too, lets try to settle this this weekend.

I didnt hit you with gish gallop even one, in fact, it is IMPOSSIBLE  to do that on the internet BY DEFINITION.

Did YOU know what a gish gallop is?

"Thee Gish gallop is a technique used during debating that focuses on overwhelming an opponent with as many arguments as possible, during a Gish gallop, a debater confronts an opponent with a rapid series of many specious arguments, half-truths, and misrepresentations in a short space of time, which makes it impossible for the opponent to refute all of them within the format of a formal debate.[3][4] In practice, each point raised by the "Gish galloper" takes considerably more time to refute or fact-check than it did to state in the first place.[5] The technique wastes an opponent's time and may cast doubt on the opponent's debating ability for an audience unfamiliar with the technique, especially if no independent fact-checking is involved[6] or if the audience has limited knowledge of the topics.”

TL:DR it’s deliberately saying a huge stream of arguments so the other people cant possibly have the time to address them all in a formal debate (your time is limited in those, usually from 1 to 3 minutes) and thus, have no option but to leave some unadressed, looking bad for it..

We are on the internet. You can’t run out of time, you can take hours, days, weeks, months even. You have time to adress them all, if you dont is because you either dont want to, or cant possibly do so, not because im preventing you from doing so.

Also, I  never used a huge amount of arguments. My entire argument was made in 3 simple points. You cannot say that someone writing 3 small paragraphs and giving you as much time as you possibly need is using gish gallop. ( my comment was 406 words in total, an average book page has 300, so its one page and one fourth of a page worth of reading)

If someone makes 3 simple points (like saying an egg is tasty, cheap and nutritious) and your first thought is “well shit, im totally overwhelmed, there is no way I can answer to this, even if I take an hour to do it” there is only 2 possibilities.

1 You are deliberately lying, which is a pretty dishonest thing to do. To add insult to injury you are lying and being dishonest in a debate while accusing the other person of being dishonest in a debate, which is a dick move.

2 you have some SERIOUS mental disability (the kind of disabilities that grants you welfare for life) and genuinely feel overwhelmed by a guy stating 3 simple points and giving you as much time as you want to answer them. And you genuinely want to answer me, but simply arent able to do it because you cannot mentally process those 3 paragraphs, not even by taking months to do so.

Call me skeptic, but my money is on 1.