129: The View From Above Fallacy

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Have you ever heard someone go about explaining the two sides to an argument, only to later discover they're involved in one side of the controversy? While a situation like that isn't exactly the view-from-above fallacy, it closely resembles the rhetorical strategy of one. Not directly a logical fallacy, the speaker presents themselves as an objective observer looking down on the battlefield between two subjective parties. While doing so, they make normative claims about the environment as if they had no impact or binding influence over his ability to observe. 

Gun Culture is regularly faced with this type of rhetoric, and we dive into both a recent article published by Relevant Magazine, as well as the worthwhile read "On Killing" by Lt. Col. Dave Grossman as this fallacy is sometimes referred to as the Psychologist's Fallacy. 

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