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A strawman argument means creating a weaker or more vulnerable version of the opposing point of view so that it\'s easier to attack. This trope happens when the author \'\'fails to make his strawman weak enough\'\'. His \
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A strawman argument means creating a weaker or more vulnerable version of the opposing point of view so that it\\\'s easier to attack. This trope happens when the author \\\'\\\'fails to make his strawman weak enough\\\'\\\'. His \\\"easy to attack\\\" parody of the actual opposing opinion still winds up sounding more reasonable than (or at least \\\'\\\'as reasonable\\\'\\\' as) his chosen position.
If the author presents a villain\\\'s argument and then fails to show it to be wrong, he\\\'s either failed in his attempt to create a strawman or he was doing it intentionally to create morally ambiguity. As long as the examples don\\\'t include those, it\\\'s probably fine.
If you\\\'re saying that some of the examples don\\\'t show any sign of having been weakened in the first place (that is, the opposing view is more or less what is actually believed by people he disagrees with), the trope probably still applies; the author should have created a strawman and didn\\\'t, or he tried to and failed.
If the author presents a villain\\\'s argument and then fails to show it to be wrong, he\\\'s either failed in his attempt to create a strawman or he was doing it intentionally to create morally ambiguity. As long as the examples don\\\'t include those, it\\\'s probably fine.
If you\\\'re saying that some of the examples don\\\'t show any sign of having been weakened in the first place (that is, the opposing view is more or less what is actually believed by people he disagrees with), the trope probably still applies; the author should have created a strawman and didn\\\'t, or he tried to and failed.
