Straw man

There are fallacies everywhere in people’s speeches or comments; one of these fallacies is called Straw man. A Straw man fallacy is when a person makes up a distorted version of the opposing persons argument and then uses the distorted version of the argument to attack the opposing person’s real argument.  In this fallacy the person makes the statement look as if it is positive but then another person would distort the statement and make it look as if the positive statement was a negative one changing the listener whole view of the stament and argumentment as a whole. An example of this would be when someone says “We strengthen our team by adding Torres to our line-up”  and someone would make it sound negative by saying “Yeah when they add him they will get rid of the starting line up to make room for him”. Though it was a positive statement the person changed it to a negative one by giving the listener a negative view of the positive statement.