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Agreed that the formalism tends to be an appeal to authority or simply a way to appeal to a bias and shut down opposing views. I think more often than not, formal fallacies are misused and misapplied in informal debates, relying on over-generalizations and highly inferred arguments that can’t be supported by the literal facts of the debate and misread or outright mischaracterize the actual arguments. Often the person accusing another of a fallacy is in fact false and committing their own fallacy.

Maybe this could be useful resource to disprove and shut down attacks that misuse formal fallacies.