"About the “that often alleged informal fallacies are not fallacious at all, but rather a reasonable heuristic or first step to approach a complex problem” part, I fully agree with it, not just that, most of the time, those alleged informal fallacies, but it can also be applied to formal fallacies and logical fallacies as a whole, are not fallacious at all, they are actually relative in most of the cases, they are often a reasonsable philosophical or humanist first step or first steps to approach complex problems or even social problems, and, eventually, leading into a more complex discussion and argument about them, and also, alleged informal fallacies can also bring positive things and have positive things in social, political and cultural issues as well, and as well as work as a humanist force sometimes, without mention that an informal fallacy (but it also works for all fallacies at all) are only fallacious or non fallacious according to its context, that’s the why they are relative, one can say an informal fallacy, and it actually be fully valid if it has data and arguments in favor of it, they often are valid for social and cultural issues, and even for deal with complex issues, like the ones of “not all” and “all problems are relative (Fallacy of Relative Privation)”, they aren’t fallacious at all if you’re using them in a context that would bring good results or avoid bad things to happen, like “not all germans are nazis” or “your problems nowadays are not that bad as your problems from 6 months ago”, they are not fallacious at all if the context they are insidered are not fallacious, the first one about someone who believes all Germans are nazis and the second one someone who wants to give up in life, I can even give an example of “not all humans are evil” or “not all muslims are terrorists” in case of arguing with xenophobes and racists. And even the “No true Scotsman” can not be fallacious at all if it is insidered in a context about nationalism and patriotism, like fighting in a war of national liberation or even about being proud of your country in something. So, you need to analyse their context before you take any conclusions about that, all fallacies are relative, at least they often are relative. So yes, the use of alleged informal fallacies is valid for philosophical and humanist purposes and even for initial approaches for complex problems or even avoid bad things to happen."

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