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Examples of strawman arguments
The following is a typical example of a strawman argument:

Teaching assistant: the homework assignment was much harder than we thought, so I think we should give a few extra points to students who completed it.

Professor: that’s a terrible idea. If we give everyone a perfect score for no reason, students won’t bother working hard in the future.

In this example, the professor uses a strawman argument, by misrepresenting their assistant’s stance in three ways:

The professor argues against giving everyone a bonus, while the teaching assistant suggested giving it only to students who completed the assignment.
The professor argues against giving students a perfect score, while their assistant suggested giving students only a few extra points.
The professor argues against giving students a bonus for no reason, while their assistant suggested giving them the bonus because the assignment was harder than expected.
In doing all of this, the professor makes it much easier for themself to attack their assistant’s stance.

Keep in mind that it doesn’t matter whether the overall claims of the professor who is using the strawman are true or not (i.e. that if everyone got a perfect score for no reason, then students won’t work hard in the future). This is because the professor’s argument is a fallacious misrepresentation of their opponent’s stance, meaning that it’s entirely irrelevant to the discussion in the first place.

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