As in, doesn’t matter at all to you.

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    “Why do all American teenagers get cars as gifts for their sixteenth birthday?” is an example: It asks why something is true even though that thing is not, in fact, true.

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      30 days ago

      I’m not sure how to feel about understanding this now. Good, because I understand, or bad, because I’ll perpetually be annoyed from holding back the urge to correct.

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        There’s no need to correct people using the phrase to mean “prompting the question”, that’s practically definition two at this point.

        If you see people commuting the rhetorical fallacy, however, go ahead and call them out.