Reading Comprehension and Beyond

You can clearly see from D-Roc's prior post that he missed the entire point of my previous post. Namely, the blog was contingent upon his participation, and his willingness to participate (or in D-Roc's terms, his willingness to "take the first step"), was non-existent.

His reading comprehension may need work, but despite this it's good to see D-Roc finally making blog posts, even if it took him a couple weeks to "take the initiative."

Edit: I welcome the opportunity for this blog to serve a selfish secondary purpose of exposing common logical fallacies used in everyday life. I expect D-Roc to be a veritable treasure trove, and he's off to a good start. In D-Roc's last post, for example, we saw a clear example of a Straw Man:

"The Straw Man fallacy is committed when a person simply ignores a person's actual position and substitutes a distorted, exaggerated or misrepresented version of that position".

Examine the following paragraph:

My cohert, Vargo, spoke endlessly of the ultimate blog, with promises of tutorials, vlogs, discussion boards, and the community that would come with it. What was the result, months after the vision? Nothing. The first step is the hardest, is this why he never takes it?

The underlying argument D-Roc is making: "Vargo promised a blog, etc. but didn't deliver, probably because he wasn't willing to take the first step." Notice the false premise that D-Roc sneakily inserted. He implies that I had intended to create a site independent of his participation, but as I blatantly spelled out in my previous posts, that was never the intention. Thus he's attacking a false argument, or... that's right, "straw man". Here is where reading comprehension would have come in handy.

Edit #2: Just to be clear, I never implied that I'm not lazy and unmotivated; just that D-Roc's argument holds zero weight. You'll hear him criticize my lack of future action as evidence that he was correct, when in fact he's only verifying his straw man. Common, tired tactic. Move along, nothing to see here...