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Most people use toilet paper > Bidet users says hey this is a better way > Toilet paper users (and you for some reason) say well you're not using soap so it's not actually clean so why use one.
You're arguing something that wasn't in the original argument, that makes it a fallacy.
Also, if they made a Bidet with soap I would use it but they don't. So until there us soap use the water.
The original argument (question) was "would you use water or paper to clean shit off your arm" and the answer for most people is "definitely neither water or paper alone, soap needs to be in there somewhere". Limiting it to either water or paper only is a binary fallacy.
What if someone criticized you for not using soap with a bidet? That's what bidet advocates are doing for paper users. My point was that people have different standards and that's not a bad thing. This made me a "jerk" to you for some reason.
For the record I've used bidets and they're fine (although some people probably feel that public bidets are kind of gross when compared to paper), but the cleanliness factor is pretty close in most situations IMO. It's not like I was advocating for not washing your ass for a week or something.
The original posed the question as if those are the only two options. Because, since there are no bidets that also shoot soap (at least not that I've seen anywhere), those are the only two options.
Then coming in and saying yeah well what about soap is irrelevant. Making it a fallacy. It's as if two people were arguing if salt or pepper is better to use on cooking food and then you came in and said yeah well there's actually a lot of seasonings you can use instead of just salt and pepper. Great, we know that but that's not what we were arguing as we only have salt and pepper.
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