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by clnq 926 days ago
You’re responding to a statement you straw-manned. The comment you’re responding implies a slippery slope, not an equivalence between DIY safety and letting kids be outside.
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What? Are you op's alt-account, or did you not bother to read his response? I straw-manned nothing. He compared making your own home-charger to letting your kids play outside, not me. I simply pointed out that comparing the two was ridiculous. The fact you'd accuse me of straw-manning when I was doing literally the opposite is somewhere between hilarious and offensive.
FWIW I read it as a straw man too, and the original as a slippery slope argument rather than an equivalence. Communicating in short bits of text is hard.