Here I delineate my argument more clearly. Originally responding to the issue of trucks and roads: "(...) it seems to me that if heavily loaded trucks are cau

Here I delineate my argument more clearly. Originally responding to the issue of trucks and roads: "(...) it seems to me that if heavily loaded trucks are causing a disproportionate amount of damage they should be taxed at a rate which allows for proper maintenance of those roads" I made the following points, implicitly or rhetorically, now listed in earnest: 1 - the above argument is supported by the notion that taxation should be proportional to usage/consumption 2 - that notion is simple and reasonable and one might expect that because of that, this issue would already be resolved by law 3 - that to expect that this issue already be resolved by law is laughable as one can easily see from a cursory glance at extremely current issues, e.g. the supreme court having just ruled on ObamaCare's constitutionality 4 - that the way we come to make these bad decisions is by calling people trolls, pretending not to see their arguments, or reacting emotionally when they point out an inconsistency in our thinking, instead of offering a refutation based on reason; in this specific case, the counter argument could be some crucial differences between the "trucks and roads" scenario and the "women and healthcare" scenario, both of which rely on the structural notion that taxation proportional to usage/consumption is the fair choice 5 - that if the notion cannot be applied to one analogous scenario then it cannot be applied to any analogous scenario 6 - that (5) is the intellectual rut that leftists live in, which contributes to bad decisions like healthcare that taxes the genders equally So my claim is that those bad decisions (like trucks taxed as much as cars) come from people who are not able to see that the notions that support claims such as "if trucks cause more damage they should be taxed more" are either universally valid or invalid, which is why emotional arguments are offered to defend those decisions, and why you see this kind of reaction to people like me.