If he can unilaterally declare a Worst Argument, then so can I. I declare the Worst Argument In The World to be this: “X is in a category whose archetypal member gives us a certain emotional reaction. Therefore, we should apply that emotional reaction to X, even though it is not a central category member.”
Call it the Noncentral Fallacy. It sounds dumb when you put it like that. Who even does that, anyway?
One could go further, and say its basis is often wrong—the central fallacy. Why would our initial, instinctive reaction be the be all, end all?
One could go further, and say its basis is often wrong—the central fallacy. Why would our initial, instinctive reaction be the be all, end all?