Violating the Principle of Rational Discussion consists of four different examples. The first one is begging the question, the second is strawman, the third is shifting the burden of proof, and the last is relevance. The strawman violation is one that I feel many people can relate to and deal with on a regular basis whether it be at work or at school. In many situations when someone is trying to prove their argument is correct and that someone else's argument is incorrect, the only way for them to make their argument good is by making the others person's argument bad. In order to do this the person will change what the other person has said about their argument in order to make it sound like a bad argument. The person will basically make up lies about what the other person is arguing to make himself look better. It is better known as putting words in someone else's mouth.
Strawman is very common in today's society. The strawman fallacy occurs everywhere, at work, school, bus, restaurants, if there is communication someone could be using strawman. Strawman fallacy is when someone ignores another person's argument and insteads purposely misinterprets what they are saying in their argument. Someone can say that we need to stop selling soda at our high school. Another person can then add why do we need to stop selling soda at our high school, is it because we have a lot of overweight people. But the first person was not the intention of their statement, it was probably because for their own preference to stop drinking soda, but it is impossible because everywhere they turn they see a soda machine. The second totally jumped to conclusion and misinterpreted their statement. Putting words in the first persons mouth, even though they had no thought about that.
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