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People shouting 'fallacy' when there is no fallacy

Taarkin said:
PS: Analogies are NOT strawmen for ****'s sake.
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They can be, when they distort what was actually being said or weren't even much of an analogy to anything actually being said in the first place. I've seen the "it wasn't a strawman, I was just giving an analogy" defense before, and actually just about invariably it was an actual strawman.
 
Speaking of analogies, recently I've been accused of making an argument by faulty analogy (on two separate occasions) when I wasn't making an analogy of any kind. I was actually applying the principle my opponent expressed to an example of exactly what the principle was meant to apply to. (It was actually reductio ad absurdum--proving that a premise is false by showing that it logically leads to an absurdly false conclusion. And someone else accused me of committing the argumentum ad absurdum fallacy!)
 
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