The worst argument you've ever heard

[Zhukov]

I once overheard two people arguing about vegetarianism.

One of them was trying to tell the other that fish are not animals.

Yeah.

It took a supreme act of will to restrain myself from walking over and slapping her until her brain started working. By the time the argument ended I was literally shaking with frustration.

I never understood pescetarians. If you're gonna be a vegetarian go all the way, if lambs deserve sympathy so do carps.

Actually, it was the other way around.

The vegetarian was saying she wasn't going to eat fish and her friend was saying she should because fish aren't animals.

 

[Gabanuka]

snip.

Wow, that is stupid.

 

[Spectral Dragon]

"Because that's SOCIALIST/COMMUNIST!" or some version of that, where a suggestion is rejected due to the source and not its merits. Mostly hear it from rightwing american politicians that later get parodied a dozen times before you can say "conservative".

Or maybe "you'll regret this when you go to hell!". I mean, honestly, if you haven't convinced me by then, how'd THAT work?!

 

[Zen Bard]

Most religious arguments are stupid. Largely, I think, because the people who are arguing don't fully understand their own religion.

But the best stupid one I heard was "If you don't believe in the Bible, you're calling God a liar."

My response was "The Bible wasn't written by God. It was written by men inspired to explain and define God. It was also written in Latin and Aramaic two thousand years ago. Don't you think it's possible something may have gotten lost in the translation?"

Hi response: "Um...er...God doesn't lie."

Couldn't decide whether to slap him or myself...

 

[Hagi]

There's currently a petition about having a gun in every classroom to protect against attacks such as happened in Connecticut...

Which is really freaking stupid when you think about it...

These guns will have to be easily accessible so that when an attacker unexpectedly comes in the teacher can react swiftly and take out the weapon before the shooter can adequately react. It's no use if the teacher has to open up a securely locked container with several safeties and then assemble the weapon whilst the shooter is killing his or her students. And we all know that the combination of children and easily accessible guns never have and never will cause any serious safety issues.

Should they decide to be very extra careful and actually secure these weapons there's of course always the possibility of a teacher in another classroom taking the time to access his or her weapon and rush over to attack the shooter, since clearly the best course of action in that scenario is to rush out leaving his or her students alone to engage the attacker instead of for example evacuating those students whilst they're still in relative safety. Engaging in an open firefight in the middle of a school is clearly the superior option that will lead to the least amount of casualties compared to getting your students the fuck out of there, it's not like stray bullets ever hit bystanders or anything.

 

[Ljs1121]

"Oh, but [homosexuality] is unnatural and unnatural things are bad! You tweet from your micro-computer that you carry around in your clothes while sailing at 30,000 feet traveling at 500 miles an hour in an aeroplane. Homosexuality is found in over 1,500 different species on this planet. Homophobia, now that's unnatural."

-NerdCubed

I don't think that any argument against homosexuality has ever made me think, "Hmm, yes, that is very logical and I think I will reconsider my views on that topic.".

 

[irishmanwithagun]

There are some absolute gems here but I've collected a fair few over the years.

"If we don't get rid of the homosexuals they'll outnumbe us and the human race won't survive."
"People are only gay because they see it on TV."
"If there's no God then who wrote the Bible?"
"If there's no God than how come so many people believe in Him?"
"I believe in an omnipotent being that controls eery moment of my life but that doesn't mean I don't have free will!"
"Sceintists have no evidence for Evolution!"
"The media is preventing religious truths from being revealed!"
"What are you, some fort of Communist/Socialist?"
"Americans are great because we discovered America!"
"We need to wage war to support our troops!"

That's all I've got right now.

 

[zehydra]

any ad homonem argument just makes me get up and leave. i cant be civil with some one who aregues the arguer rather than the argument.

agreed. The problem is, ad hominim arguments make up probably most arguments that occur between people.

It's difficult to argue with someone who already has prejudices about a person or thing

 

[Guffe]

"Because that's the way it is"
I can't come up with enough situations people have said this to me and thought I'd just accept that without any backup info, whatsoever...

Well that can kinda work... Something of a "If it isn't broke, don't fix it."

That's true.
But no one ever does that... not to me anyway.
But you have a valid point in what you say!

 

[necromanzer52]

Someone on omegle said they don't think marijuana should be legalised. I asked them why. Their response: "We would have high motherfuckers driving around". Then they left before I could respond.

Also there's the amazingly ignorant crocoduck argument against evolution.

 

[MetalDooley]

Slippery slope arguments annoy the fuck out of me.Just because one thing happens does not mean that something else,often completley unrelated,is going to follow

For example I've actually heard people say that if we allow gay marriage then before too long we'll have to remove the age of consent and legalise beastiality

So by allowing 2 consenting adults to legally marry we'll also have to allow people to legally fuck kids and animals

 

[Shilefin]

Someone once told me that piracy is like stealing someone's thesis(as in a document submitted in support of candidature for an academic degree) and then earning the given academic title with it while the one who the document was stolen from(and who originally made it) fails to earn the given academic title.

The stupidity was so powerful that my brain exploded and my will to argue shattered. Good times.

 

[Queen Michael]

Slippery slope arguments annoy the fuck out of me.Just because one thing happens does not mean that something else,often completley unrelated,is going to follow

For example I've actually heard people say that if we allow gay marriage then before too long we'll have to remove the age of consent and legalise beastiality

So by allowing 2 consenting adults to legally marry we'll also have to allow people to legally fuck kids and animals

You might as well say that if we give women the vote then we'll have to give it to animals.

 

[freakymojo]

Criticise scientology infront of a member of said cult, and he will begin shouting "what is your crime?"
the logic being, i guess, that only a hardcore rotten criminal would ever insult scientology.

 

[MASTACHIEFPWN]

Slippery slope arguments annoy the fuck out of me.Just because one thing happens does not mean that something else,often completley unrelated,is going to follow

For example I've actually heard people say that if we allow gay marriage then before too long we'll have to remove the age of consent and legalise beastiality

So by allowing 2 consenting adults to legally marry we'll also have to allow people to legally fuck kids and animals

I know! I can understand some slippery slope arguments, Like hobbes said, Giveth an Inch, he'll take a ell, in most cases where we are given some leeway we exploit it to see how far we can go- But this isn't something to exploit, it's making sure a minority gets the rights that were guerrenteed by the Decleration of Independance in the US.

 

[Cheesus Crust]

I really don't understand what the OP is trying to say. The statement "It's just funny how no one has any problems with firearms, or the second ammendment until something happens" makes sense. Your friend is just saying that a lot of people don't have any opinion on some subject matter until something bad happens, in which case they suddenly jump the gun and start arguing for or against something, regardless of how much information they actually have on the subject matter. I have to agree with this because there are many cases where firearms for example have been good, but nobody gets in an uproar like they do when something bad happens. People just pay much more attention to the bad stuff.

"So according to this guy, if you are indiffirent towards something or like it, and then find out something really bad about it, or something bad that can come from it, you should still be indiffirent/like it."

I really have no idea how you came to interpret his comment this way. Maybe there is more context that I should know about but I don't think your friend is saying this at all.

I think there's this psychological thing where people are more likely to pay attention to the negative things than the positive ones.

 

[Cheesus Crust]

Slippery slope arguments annoy the fuck out of me.Just because one thing happens does not mean that something else,often completley unrelated,is going to follow

For example I've actually heard people say that if we allow gay marriage then before too long we'll have to remove the age of consent and legalise beastiality

So by allowing 2 consenting adults to legally marry we'll also have to allow people to legally fuck kids and animals

I know! I can understand some slippery slope arguments, Like hobbes said, Giveth an Inch, he'll take a ell, in most cases where we are given some leeway we exploit it to see how far we can go- But this isn't something to exploit, it's making sure a minority gets the rights that were guerrenteed by the Decleration of Independance in the US.

I also concur. What I also hate is them saying that less men or women will have marriage with the opposite sex and society will collapse and shit. WTF!!!!! legalizing gay marriage is gonna make me love my girlfriend a lot less??? Honestly, the come off as the people who have latent homosexual tendencies for thinking that.

 

[L34dP1LL]

Bill O'Reilly has all the wrong arguments that you could possibly ask for.

 

[Cheesus Crust]

BTW I came here to originally post my own. It's regarding the Reproductive Health Bill in the Philippines which is obviously hotly contested by the Church. FYI the RH bill ensures equal public access to contraception like condoms.

Their argument is that it kills babies. They train of thought stems from the fact that the semen don't fertilize. By that train of thought anyone who doesn't have sex and does not conceive a child is a murderer. They even labelled the current administration for being responsible for all the deaths of unborn children. A representative of the Catholic Church even went so far as to say that the blood of unborn babies will be on their hands.

Also, only in the Philippines, will you hear politically incorrect bishops talking about how a natural disaster that killed 900 people was God's way of showing that we shouldn't pass said RH bill.