Agreed that the formalism tends to be an appeal to authority or simply a way to appeal to a bias and shut down opposing views. I think more often than not, formal fallacies are misused and misapplied in informal debates, relying on over-generalizations and highly inferred arguments that can’t be supported by the literal facts of the debate and misread or outright mischaracterize the actual arguments. Often the person accusing another of a fallacy is in fact false and committing their own fallacy.
Maybe this could be useful resource to disprove and shut down attacks that misuse formal fallacies.
Maybe this could be useful resource to disprove and shut down attacks that misuse formal fallacies.