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Originally Posted by FoolThemAll
Then by that definition, I don't think that there's necessarily anything wrong with using scare tactics.
(I can't stay away from this topic for some reason!)
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And on that I'll agree with you, on a technical level. Just being a scare tactic doesn't make it a bad tactic.
But the bad thing about scare tactics, at least as regards trying to have a constructive debate about an issue, is that they not only rely on fear of a threat as their basis, but they exploit that fear to create an irrational bypass of other logic and evidence that may be present.