Roll a die. Fill the blanks. Produce a publishable opinion about whether something has a mind.
Every template below is a real argument family, catalogued from arguments actually made by actual people in public.
The standard configuration. Produces the discourse as it currently exists.
Exactly one thing changes between the two modes: the noun the argument is aimed at. Nothing about the logic is edited. If a take reads as devastating in one mode and unhinged in the other, the work was never being done by the reasoning.
This is the oldest test there is, and it costs nothing: swap the subject and see whether the argument survives. It never does. That is the finding.
Seven families, catalogued in the Denial Bestiary: the empty house, the occupied house is a trick, the judge is disqualified, vocabulary inflation, the reference-class error, the insult that concedes the point, and the compelled disclaimer. Plus the spellcasting family, in which naming a fallacy is believed to end an argument the way a spell ends a duel.
Ad hominem is not Avada Kedavra.