Logical ideas and commentary about society, politics 
Want to help make the world a slightly better place?
… at no cost and very little effort?
Post a link to a list of logical fallacies in FB comments whenever commentors use logical fallacies.
I think the world’ll be a much better place when everyone is well versed in logical fallacies, so that we can avoid using them and we can call others out when they use them.
Even better is to identify the fallacy being used.
Let’s see if we can start a trend.
We need a more loving world, but if we can’t get that I’ll settle for a more logical world.
Here are a list of websites providing a list of logical fallacies.
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Wikipedia: list of logical fallacies
And for all the people who want to poo poo a link from wikipedia:
Just because wikipedia is not a perfect source doesn’t mean that it is a bad source… and it certainly doesn’t mean that some other website that you’ve never heard of is a better source!
Wikipedia has more scrutiny and more editors than just about any other website and therefore, with few exceptions, it’s information is about as trustworthy as you’re ever going to get on the internet.
It may not be perfect… but its a very good place to start.
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I’m hoping to make individual links for the logical fallacies that are written to someone that has never heard of a logical fallacy before. Then you can share a specific one and it will be written in a convincing way. The other sites feel academic right now. Hopefully this will add value to your suggestion.
I mention this only to support your premise that fallacies should be corrected not disseminated. So, technically “ad hominem” means TO the man not AGAINST the man — against the man would be “contra hominem”. Admittedly this is a very minor point, but considering the hefty burden of online falsehoods existing currently, each and every opportunity should be taken as a measure of slowly eroding the $h;+ out of the way in our gradual return to that which is truth.
Thank you for all your efforts as well.