Non Argument

The type of bickering where if you respond to it like its an argument both participants will deny it like "we're not fighting/arguing"

A: "I just don't understand why you like beans so much its stupid as fuck"
B: "Well you liking pickles is dumber I don't know why you're talkin"
C: "Yo can we chill out it's just food lmao"
A&B: "We are chill it's not an argument"
C: "Yeah sure, just another non argument huh"

by Merthod March 2, 2026

Argument Picking

A form of fallacy picking where you select specific parts of an opponent's argument to invalidate the whole, rather than engaging point by point. The move identifies a weak point, a minor error, or a poorly chosen example and uses it to dismiss everything else—as if one flawed brick collapses the entire building. Argument Picking is selective destruction: find the weakest part, attack it relentlessly, then declare victory over the whole. The fallacy lies in treating the whole as no stronger than its weakest part, ignoring that arguments are webs, not chains. One weak strand doesn't collapse the web.

"He found one minor factual error in my twenty-point argument and declared everything invalid. That's Argument Picking—selective destruction pretending to be comprehensive critique. One mistake doesn't make everything wrong; it just makes one thing wrong. But picking lets you feel victorious without engaging the other nineteen points."

by Dumu The Void March 3, 2026