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What are up votes (uplemmies?) actually for?
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this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2023
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Reductio ad absurdum is great to prove that pushing something to absurdity is absurd. It doesn't actually further the discussion in any way.
Using your reductio ad absurdum as a strawman argument, puts the cherry on top of your fallacy cake.
Lecturing people on logical fallacies is what doesn't add to conversations. Reductio ad absurdum is great to point out that your idea is already absurd. Try playing any game with multiple currencies. They suck.
You are using reductio ad absurdum wrong. It is used as a proof by contradiction, which is not what you are doing.
Instead you are using it to construct a huge strawman agument.
This is like if you say "Keeping posts short is good" and I say "The shortest possible post has 0 characters and that's not a good post, so short posts are bad". Which could incidentally also be used for the exact opposite ("Explaining your arguments thorougly in a post is good" -> "The most thorough explanation possible has infinite characters, so explaining arguments is bad").
Because in general, every single thing that is overexagerated is bad. There is not a single thing that, if pushed to absurd limits, is good.
You could have just said "I disagree, I don't think it would be a good idea because, ...".
Instead you used polemics and a logical fallacy.
You appear to know your logical fallacies. They are guidelines how not to argue, not guidelines to follow.