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If you think Sweden's system is perfect, by all means pack your things and move there.
A Red Herring is a fallacy in which an irrelevant topic is presented in order to divert attention from the original issue. The basic idea is to "win" an argument by leading attention away from the argument and to another topic. This sort of "reasoning" has the following form:
Topic A is under discussion.
Topic B is introduced under the guise of being relevant to topic A (when topic B is actually not relevant to topic A).
Topic A is abandoned.
This sort of "reasoning" is fallacious because merely changing the topic of discussion hardly counts as an argument against a claim.
Fallacy: Red Herring
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When someone says that socialism has always failed I point out how well social democracy works in Scandinavia. When that someone tells me to move to Scandinavia I point out that he is trying to change the subject. The point is that what those on the right claim does not work works well in Scandinavia.
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