How to Spot Logical Fallacies (Featuring Joe Rogan and Ben Shapiro)

Scroll down for some more logical fallacies. :) Subscribe for more puppets! www.youtube.com/channel/UCCC38u45KCmNDe9X4ozxqlA Also, what do you think of the video? Was I too hard on Rogan and Shapiro? For the record, I struggle with being logical. The logical fallacies I am most guilty of are the strawman fallacy and the hasty generalization fallacy. Which ones are you guilty of the most? Edit: I'm getting a lot of comments that they were just having a "casual conversation," so therefore we shouldn't call them out for making logical fallacies. Two responses to this: 1) It's not a casual, informal conversation when it's broadcast to tens of millions of people 2) Logical fallacies are not just made in debates. Any time someone makes any claim, they can make a logical fallacy.

When my logic and philosophy teacher first told us about fallacies, he gave us a paper with 15 fallacies and their definitions, and went about his day. Our class was discussion based, but from then on, he called out every fallacy he heard us commit, *every single one*, until eventually, out of annoyance, we tried our hardest to not commit them when having a discussion.

Me: “Wow, is everything a fallacy?” Mr Beat: “That’s an existential fallacy.”

the most annoying thing is when someone spits out like 6 lies in one comment, it's impossible to correct them all as quickly, so they think they win the argument

Ben: “Facts don’t care about your feelings” Also Ben: uses anecdotal fallacy

"Jeff Bezos is left leaning" has got to be the funniest shit I've heard all year.

The straw man fallacy is the one I have the hardest dealing with. I usually have discussions and debates in good faith, and then when I get hit with straw mans I spend all my time breaking them apart, only to be hit by other straw men. And then I'll realize we're on a completely different topic that's miles away from my original argument

It's called pulling a Shapiro - throwing arguments at you faster than you can react.

It's probably worth stating that some fallacies are worse than others. Most of the fallacies in this video are informal fallacies and, as such, identifying them is somewhat subjective. I also thought it was interesting that people were saying in the comments, "You can't critique their comments because they were just having a conversation, not a debate." That doesn't matter at all. If people are making statements about what is real and what is true, then it's possible for them to make logical fallacies in those statements. And, if they do so, that undermines the validity of what they are saying, although what they are saying may still be true regardless.

“I think we all agree that LA is somewhere in the middle” That’s an appeal to popular opinion fallacy Mr. Beat 😏

Everybody had a Ben Shapiro in their class

Ben Shapiro sounds like he’s been breathing helium.

I think it’s important to acknowledge that most fallacies are just a misuse of valid arguments. For example, the slippery slope argument is valid when applied properly. “If you don’t set your alarm in the morning, you’ll get in trouble at work.” You can call anything a fallacy, but that puts the burden on you as to why that argument isn’t valid.

We’re very often going to make some sort logical fallacy during unscripted conversation. It’s when people have glaring logical fallacies in their long-standing, pre-meditated arguments that they keep perpetuating that we need to seriously address these fallacies.

The real problem with logical fallacies is that even if you learn the most used ones and know how to explain that it’s not a good argument the other side can continue to use fallacies and veil their argument in a way where you can’t get any actual meaningful points in cause you are too busy dealing with and refuting their poor argument

I would greatly implore anyone interested in logical argument to take a discrete mathematics or proofs class. People say they hate it but I genuinely think it’s some of the most fascinating framing of daily concepts.

I really respect the fact that you have no specific political bias, you just logically dismantle bad faith arguments

I have heard Jeff Bezos described in a lot ways but never before as "left-leaning"

"In general people generalize too much." hahaha

"Of course you would say that, you're a jerk" got me so good.