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  7. 🏴‍☠️ Internationalization (i18n)

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[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

From the Wikipedia page about a Strawman fallacy...

A straw man fallacy (sometimes written as strawman) is the informal fallacy of refuting an argument different from the one actually under discussion, while not recognizing or acknowledging the distinction

Your literal point that I copy/pasted as a quote in my reply.

I don’t see how collecting less data benefits patients

My point, copy/pasted from my comment.

It takes time and effort to collect and consider that data. You’ll note that we don’t do full body MRI scans of everyone at the ER or when they visit their PCP, and that benefits patients because it reduced costs, respects their time, and makes their Dr. more available.

I am literally providing a very compelling reason on why we collect less data in order to benefit patients.

I refute your ability to understand a strawman fallacy.

After reading your whole comment, I have low confidence your ability to construct an argument, and you seem to repeatedly rely on misunderstanding (or mischaracterizing) of my arguments and the fundemental fallacies you've accused me of using.

Rather than dive into your gish gallop, I would ask that you demonstrate your commitment to arguing in good faith by apologizing for accusing me of creating the first "strawman", and admitting that you either did not understand my argument, did not understand what a strawman is, or admitting that you accused me while intentionally knowing that it was based on false pretenses.