No, you make sense. I haven't yet sent him my response, but in it I pointed out that lawyers are no more responsible for judging those who hire them than a building contractor who ends up taking a bid from someone who intends to build a brothel. I also pointed out that Saints Harry and Hermione of HE had a lawyer, so were they monsters who didn't deserve to be defended? Or Christine Collins, whose lawyer worked pro bono to sue the city of LA on her behalf?
Incidentally, that all came up because he continued to ignore my explicate explanation to him on exactly what a strawman is and how it is, indeed, possible to make a lawyer character who was not one. So yeah, by ignoring my point and going on a rant about how lawyers are all evil and calling moral superiority on them is pretty much a straw argument.
Incidentally, that's not the first straw argument this person has made. When I reviewed the fic series and concluded by saying how I felt the entire thing was sick, he apparently jumped to the conclusion that I was calling for it to be banned (even though the word "banned" NEVER came up anywhere before he used it) and said, and I quote, "I really don't think we should judge a work on whether or not it's "sick", as if we let things be censored for being "sick", people will start censoring things that they think are "sick", but others don't (like a right wing fundamentalist would censor homosexuality, a hick would censor mixed races, so on and so forth). There's even precedent for it happening. In the 70s, Sesame Street was banned in many southern areas for showing kids of different races playing together. You give people a bit of power and they'll abuse it."
In other words, he said "if you think this is sick, you advocate segregation". Lovely! :D
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Incidentally, that all came up because he continued to ignore my explicate explanation to him on exactly what a strawman is and how it is, indeed, possible to make a lawyer character who was not one. So yeah, by ignoring my point and going on a rant about how lawyers are all evil and calling moral superiority on them is pretty much a straw argument.
Incidentally, that's not the first straw argument this person has made. When I reviewed the fic series and concluded by saying how I felt the entire thing was sick, he apparently jumped to the conclusion that I was calling for it to be banned (even though the word "banned" NEVER came up anywhere before he used it) and said, and I quote, "I really don't think we should judge a work on whether or not it's "sick", as if we let things be censored for being "sick", people will start censoring things that they think are "sick", but others don't (like a right wing fundamentalist would censor homosexuality, a hick would censor mixed races, so on and so forth). There's even precedent for it happening. In the 70s, Sesame Street was banned in many southern areas for showing kids of different races playing together. You give people a bit of power and they'll abuse it."
In other words, he said "if you think this is sick, you advocate segregation". Lovely! :D