[jiggy2011]

I think pointing out a fallacy can sometimes be a good defense against somebody who is insisting that something is a mechanical certainty when it is not.

[bunderbunder]

Yes. But more often's the case that the fearless fallacy hunter fallaciously finds fallibility by fantasizing formality or finality.

Thereby committing a fallacy himself in the form of a straw man.

[jiggy2011]

I see what you did there , I think I'm going to use that.