In this ploy, the Brin Bundler creates a pretend foe who has all of the attributes of every one he hates and projects them on to the person he is debating even if none of those attributes or opinions apply. Brin Bundling is named after author David Brin who is famous for using the tactic. BRIN BUNDLING is similar to the GISH GALLOP, but instead of focusing on specific issues all lumped together to throw at an opponent, the BRIN BUNDLE is, similar to the STRAWMAN FALLACY in that the one doing the Brin Bundling creates a cardboard cutout enemy out of whole cloth and then launches fallacious fire at the pretend enemy instead of the actual person he or she is debating. I will offer advice on dealing with the GISH GALLOP at the end since it is almost identical with dealing with BRIN BUNDLING.Ģ. The GISH GALLOP differs from BRIN BUNDLING (our next example) in that – although the Gish Gallop is usually an ad hominem attack (an attack on the person or group rather than an honest discussion of the issues) it usually groups together charges that are then attached to a group or person. For this reason formal debate requires rules, an agreed upon initial position in which each side agrees to use the rules to honestly argue the particular position. The octopus, when it feels threatened, spews ink in hope of blinding or disorienting his enemy so he can escape. The Gish Gallop is a way of using the octopus method of escaping any responsibility for fair and honest discourse. The problem with trying to deal with this person is that you would need a format that allowed you to just frickin’ press pause on this idiot so you can take each fallacy on individually one at a time. So you are willing to kill off everyone else to prove that an actual medical DOCTOR doesn’t know more than your Aunt Betsy who watches Fox News and Googles what is the best essential oil to use against Ebola.”Īs you can see, the Gish Galloper has just thrown a dozen fallacies at you at once. Your worship of freedom over obedience to legitimate authorities who know more than you comes from your hatred of people who are smarter than you and who know what is best for you. “The reason you hate proven and trustworthy medical advice is because you want women and old people to die. It is a rapid vomiting of a large number of fallacious arguments all at one time, so numerous that the one trying to refute it is buried under so much nonsense it becomes nearly impossible to sort through it all. The Gish Gallop is a style of debate or argumentation that involves “throwing the kitchen sink” at the opponent.
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