Comment by serf
3 days ago
OK. Well, the way you wrote this sentence :
> I used to drink protein shakes, but now I am actively against these. Artificial sweeteners provoke insulin release [1] [2] that leads to type-II diabetes.
makes it read , structurally, like the artificial sweetener is the reasoning behind why you're against protein shakes.
Call it what you want , but to an outsider reading in it looks like you're later moving the goal posts from 'artificial sweetener is bad' to 'unnatural diets are bad' later in the dialogue.
What most people would have done , if their opinion was that unnatural diets were bad, would be to say that rather than a specific subset of that unnatural diet (artificial sweetener).
With that explained as such can you see why some might think of it as goal-post moving ? If not, why?
Because it was only one of points ("goal posts") that had to be addressed during the conversation on diets.
I addressed the point of artificial sweeteners, I then had to address other points.
You see it as "moving goal posts," I see it as a continuation of conversation.