Another thought on the video I saw suggesting the NFL flag protesters do what they do just for attention while the cameras are rolling. They aren't sincere, goes the argument.
I reply on Facebook to one such person:
"Oh, Angie, forgive, but who are we to say another person is insincere? Judging them falsely is wrong. To assign to them a motive they do not have is wrong. Do we suppose we are clairvoyant and have some kind of power to get in and read their minds to know how they feel and whether they are sincere? They do what they do (kneel) even though it jeopardizes them with the person paying their paycheck. Their job is on the line here and they do it anyway. I look at them and do not see the slightest sign they are insincere. They believe what they believe and we should grant them that. Supposing to know the motive of someone, and to assign motive to them without authentic reason for doing so, is a fallacy against logic. It is also a straw man fallacy, in that you are attacking a position the other person really doesn't have. You pick out of the air a false assumption of what they believe and why they are doing something, and then you attack it. It is arguing made easy when you can make things up as to what another person believes and then attack those things."
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