I do see your point. However, if people can’t work through a brief, simple written argument and analyze it for its logical content by themselves, they’re really not ready to contribute.
Passing over a fallacy without recognizing it is something that a reasonable person might do inadvertently, or even because they want to accept the argument and so will tend not to notice. But someone who is incapable of working through and finding the flaw?
It’s not as though I replied to a page-long comment “There’s a word misspelled”. There would be hundreds or thousands of words involved, and even a recognizable typo might take a long time to locate. A word that someone genuinely misspelled would probably prove evasive for a long time.
The logical content of such a comment would be much simpler—and few comments here are that complex.
I do see your point. However, if people can’t work through a brief, simple written argument and analyze it for its logical content by themselves, they’re really not ready to contribute.
Passing over a fallacy without recognizing it is something that a reasonable person might do inadvertently, or even because they want to accept the argument and so will tend not to notice. But someone who is incapable of working through and finding the flaw?
It’s not as though I replied to a page-long comment “There’s a word misspelled”. There would be hundreds or thousands of words involved, and even a recognizable typo might take a long time to locate. A word that someone genuinely misspelled would probably prove evasive for a long time.
The logical content of such a comment would be much simpler—and few comments here are that complex.