# Straw Man Argument Question Pack: Critical Thinking, Comic, Comprehension **Price:** $0.00 AUD **Seller:** TeachBuySell Seller **Year Levels:** noYearLevel **Subjects:** english ## Description (seller-submitted) In 1916, Bertrand Russell said forcing people to kill against their will was a moral problem. The British government said he wanted Britain to lose the war. They fined him, jailed him, and sacked him from his university post. Nobody ever answered what he actually said. The Straw Man Argument is when someone ignores what you actually said, replaces it with a sillier or more extreme version, then attacks that instead. They never deal with your real point. They're knocking down something you never built. You hear it everywhere: "You want safer equipment? So you want to ban all sport?" "You said we should think this through - so you don't trust me." "You want a bit more freedom? So you want NO RULES AT ALL?" That's not what was said. But it's much easier to win that argument. This free expansion pack teaches you to say "is that actually what I said?" - through a true historical story, real-life examples, and activities that feel nothing like homework. It's the companion to the full Straw Man Argument Activity Pack and a free preview of the upcoming book, 24 Fallacies and the Historical Disasters That Followed. ⭐ Rated 5.0 by people who now win arguments THE STORY INSIDE Bertrand Russell was one of the sharpest thinkers Britain had ever produced - philosopher, mathematician, Nobel laureate. When the British government introduced conscription during World War I, Russell joined the No-Conscription Fellowship and wrote pamphlets arguing that forcing people to fight was a moral problem. His actual position: forcing someone to kill, against their will, is a question worth asking. He wasn't saying Britain should lose. He was saying the choice to fight should belong to the person doing the fighting. His critics turned it into something else entirely. Russell, they said, was a coward who wanted to hand Britain over to the Kaiser. He was disloyal. Anti-British. A traitor. The government fined him, banned him from travelling, and had him sacked from his university position. Later,… [truncated] ## Learning Needs growthMindset, personalDevelopment, socialSkills --- View on TeachBuySell: https://teachbuysell.com.au/l/699e75ec-c546-43e8-abb4-2ab5ce270d34 Marketplace: https://teachbuysell.com.au