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You misunderstood the poster above re: gays.

• bronbron 12y ago
  No, I understood their point. It was a dumb hyperbolic analogy and it received a dumb loaded argument in retort.
  • ObviousScience 12y ago
    I raised a clearly wrong hypothetical (which necessarily must be hyperbolic) to contrast the features of your argument (I think both have a couple of the same fallacies in their structure) with something we can clearly see where it lands, and not because I thought the two were identical in nature, equally defensible, etc. It's unfortunate that you decided to write a post which failed to address the point of that argument (the weakness in your own argument), and instead pretended that I had somehow meant what was clearly a rhetorical flourish.
    • bronbron 12y ago
      > (which necessarily must be hyperbolic) Why? > to contrast the features of your argument (I think both have a couple of the same fallacies in their structure) You were assuming I was arguing about something completely different (something about kids getting their hands on drugs or some such nonsense). It’s like you didn’t even take the time to read what I had written, and instead had some canned response ready to go. > It's unfortunate that you decided to write a post which failed to address the point of that argument (the weakness in your own argument), and instead pretended that I had somehow meant what was clearly a rhetorical flourish. I took what you had written and used it as a podium to argue something completely different. Sound familiar :)?