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if it is easy to invent arguments for anything, then your definition of what constitutes an argument is too broad and includes nonsense.
It's easy to invent bad arguments for anything, including arguments that, when you are motivated to produce them, you may not notice are bad arguments. Limiting "argument" to mean good arguments is too narrow a definition. As always, the definition of "argument" is not the point here.