Logicbait
A form of baiting that weaponizes logic—not to find truth, but to dominate, dismiss, or manipulate. Logicbait takes two main forms. First: the performative use of logical fallacies as weapons, where the baiter commits fallacies while accusing others of them, creating a hall of mirrors where no real engagement can happen. Second: fallacy-picking, where the baiter ignores the substance of an argument to hunt for any perceived logical flaw, real or imagined, and uses it to dismiss everything else. "You committed the ad hominem fallacy!" they scream, while committing ad hominem. "That's a straw man!" they claim, while building one. Logicbait also includes more sophisticated tools: Fallacy Blind-Spot (seeing others' fallacies but not your own), Self-Serving Fallacy (only caring about logic when it benefits you), Not Happening Fallacy (claiming something isn't happening because your framework can't explain it), and the various Objectivity Biases. The goal isn't reasoning—it's winning, by any logical means necessary.
"I made a complex point about systemic issues. Logicbait response: 'You just committed the genetic fallacy! Also, that's a hasty generalization! Checkmate, fallacy boy!' They didn't engage a single substantive point—just performed logic as combat. Reason wasn't the goal; reason was the weapon."
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