Chapter 99 <It’s better to ask you to act than him>

A and B finished watching a play. A said: The actor S who played the leading role did not perform well. B said: You are not as good as him in acting! When refuting someone else's point of view, you must aim at this point of view.If you put aside the other party's point of view and the issue to be discussed, deliberately shift to another issue, and use this to attack the other party's personality, ability, or even seize the other party's physical defects for ridicule and ridicule, this is called personal attack sophistry. It is a bad performance of stealing the topic. That's exactly what B said.The question that should have been discussed was whether the actor S who played the leading role performed well, but B secretly changed it to ask A to play the leading role in the play better than S.In addition, B's argumentation method made a mistake that cannot be deduced.Because even if A's performance level is indeed inferior to that of actor S, it does not prove that S's performance is successful.Although a person can't act, he doesn't necessarily know how to watch theatre.

Sophisms similar to the above-mentioned personal attacks are not uncommon in daily life.For example, people who are criticized don't consider whether other people's opinions are correct, but retort: ​​People like you, what qualifications do you have to criticize me?Looking at your appearance, I feel disgusted at the first sight! It is true that critics may have shortcomings and mistakes of one kind or another, but those criticized should not use this as a reason to refuse criticism.Also, do people with bad looks have no right to criticize others?In fact, the objection of the critics is based on the argument that anyone with shortcomings or mistakes has no right to criticize others, and anyone with a bad appearance has no right to criticize others.

Neither of these two arguments can be established, and a mistake of false arguments has been made.