This is a fallacy that consists in dismissing a statement as absurd without giving proof of its absurdity.
Example:
Person 1: Smoking causes cancer
Person 2: That’s absurd!
Person 1: How so?
Person 2: It just obviously is
This is a fallacy that consists in dismissing a statement as absurd without giving proof of its absurdity.
Example:
Person 1: Smoking causes cancer
Person 2: That’s absurd!
Person 1: How so?
Person 2: It just obviously is
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Good point. In fact, Obama seems to be begging the question in favor of his view.
But smoking doesn’t cause cancer and it should be obvious to everyone why it doesn’t. I think it’s absurd that you don’t understand why smoking doesn’t cause cancer.
(In all honesty, this is easy to show as smoking only increases your risk factor for certain types of cancer and plenty of people don’t get any of those cancers while still smoking. So it isn’t a direct causal relationship