fun fact: this is called "Reductio ad absurdum" and it's a valid strategy in debate/rethoric.
It works great when countering stupid shit that sounds logical but really isn't.
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Nice try, thats a harry potter spell. You're not gonna fool me
Homie really thought he was gonna slip it by ye
If you like debates, but don’t like stupid takes then you just like to stay sane
You can also refute it by inverting the logic. If you like milk chocolate but don't like eating a bowl full of sugar, you like chocolate more than sugar. Curious what the name for that would be.
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Also perfectly valid in maths, and widely used
Isn't it just a type of straw man argument?
Only if you drink chocolate with a straw.
I believe they're talking about the responses, not the original post.
The first statement is actully true though, there is more sugar in milk chocolate than chocolate. the others are all obviously incorrect, there is more pickles, more chicken etc.
It’s not true. You can like a product without liking all of its ingredients in their more pure form. I like bread, but I’m not a fan of choking down handfuls of flour or yeast.
but I'm not a fan of choking down handfuls of flour or yeast
You're missing out, but whatever. More for the rest of us!
In cooking, the result is greater than the sum of its parts, and ingredients strength matters more than raw volume. Here's a more direct example. You probably don't enjoy chugging raw vanilla extract, and vanilla extract is highly concentrated in a small volume. Just because you don't like the concentrated form and it makes up a small volume in recipes, doesn't mean you don't like vanilla.
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If you love coke, but don't like raw sugar, you actually like water more than coke.
If you love water, but don’t like the taste of raw hydrogen, you actually just like oxygen.
I wonder if liquid hydrogen has a taste. Like, if we could survive in a pressure chamber that can liquify hydrogen at room temp
If you love your screaming child but don't like screaming, you actually like your child more than screaming
Could it be? 🤔
If you like the comment about the chicken more than the post about the chocolate, you like the roast more than the meat.
If you like air but you don’t like pure oxygen, then you actually like nitrogen more than oxygen.
Anti Death Penalty US'ers really dont agree with you atm
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If you like taking a shit, but don’t like the shit, then you really like the feeling of something sliding in your anal cavity.
You mean sliding out unless you have some weird shits
What? You mean you don’t suck/ push them in/ out for a few minutes before releasing them into the wild to seek their fortune elsewhere?
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If you love table salt, but don't like sodium metal, you actually like chlorine gas more than table salt.
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This is why i exclusively eat baker's chocolate, and I chew my coffee grounds. I'm not trying to dilute my precious foodstuffs with disgusting things like water or sugar.
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If you like vanilla ice cream, but don't like chugging raw vanilla extract, then you like cream and sugar more than vanilla.
i mean, yes
straight up unflavoured (except for sugar) icecream is perfectly fine
chewing on a vanilla bean is probably not that amazing
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I do like sugar more than chocolate, and I do like vinegar more than cucumbers.
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I don't get it. Like if you like dark chocolate but not baker's chocolate you like the sugar more than the chocolate.
Sounds like you get it. They're all dunking on their dumb logic
If you like raw chicken but not roasted chicken, you actually like Salmonella more than chicken.
I'm not much into health food, I am into champagne
I like the roasted chicken vs heat argument best.
If you like chocolate, just eat the unprocessed cocoa bean. Anything after that is just a level of preference for how much you like that bean processed, dark chocolate included. Stating you like the sugar more than the chocolate is ridiculous.
If you like reading the text of the shitpost more than admiring the number of upvotes they received then you really like content more than shitposting for karma
Upvoted because of title.
"Mindblowing"
If you like X+Y but don't like just Y then you must like X only
It actually took me a long time to realize I like vinegar. I've always liked sour food and pickles especially, but I never made the connection until a few years ago.
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But what if I like cold roasted chicken?
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