Rules

The rules of The Pit are simple:

• Do not attack other members personally.  ex.  Billy Joe is a moron. (Personal Attack).  Dixiecrats were racists. (Observation)
• Do not bring disagreements within The Pit to other parts of the site.  THIS IS YOUR WARNING.
• If you are incapable of compartmentalizing your feelings, then DO NOT USE THIS FORUM.  Politics and religion ALWAYS bring out people's passions.  If you can't handle that, then go read one of the many wonderful stories on the site.
• Do not report anything other than personal attacks on members as doing so will get you an automatic 10 point warning.

Additionally, please consider The Ten Commandments of Logic before critiquing the opinions of your fellow site members.

• Thou shalt not attack the person’s character, but the argument. (Ad hominem)
• Thou shalt not misrepresent or exaggerate a person’s argument in order to make it easier to attack. (Straw man fallacy)
• Thou shalt not use small numbers to represent the all. (Hasty generalization)
• Thou shalt not argue thy position by assuming one of its premises is true. (Begging the question)
• Thou shalt not claim that because something occurred before, it must be the cause. (Post hoc/False cause)
• Thou shalt not reduce the argument down to two possibilities. (False dichotomy)
• Thou shalt not argue that because of our ignorance, a claim must be true or false. (Ad ignorantum)
• Thou shalt not lay the burden of proof onto him that is questioning the claim. (Burden of proof reversal)
• Thou shalt not assume “this” follows “that” when there is no logical connection. (Non sequitur)
• Thou shalt not argue that because a premise is popular, therefore it must be true. (Bandwagon fallacy)