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olddustytrail

There must be a name for this fallacy. You know where it goes:

Person/Company does crappy thing

People complain

Fanboy says "Person/Company could do amazing thing and people would still complain"

... when it's very obvious that company/person didn't do anything good.

I've seen it so many times there must be a name for it. Anyone know what it is?

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Begging the Question.

Step 1: Assume your claim is already true, e.g. "Microsoft is a still good corporate actor in spite of doing X".

Step 2: Manufacture circular logic to support your claim from Step 1.

In other words, the poster is begging the question to be self-evident, rather than producing evidence to support their claim.

It's basically shooting the messenger, which is an ad hominem.

I'm not sure they're quite the same. If noone else has coined a term for it I'll go with the "cancer cure fallacy" but maybe someone has a better name. Open to suggestions!

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