jdrakeh
Front Range Warlock
Wayside said:He's saying that your example was wildly hyperbolic because it exaggerated the facts toward some rhetorical end. How did it exaggerate the facts? By being wildly hyperbolic, of course. In other words he's begging the question.
No, I'm saying that it was wildly hyperbolic because it picked a completely unrelated, tangentical, hot button, topic (slavery) and injected it into the thread simply for sensationalistic value. Human slavery has nothing to do with the thread's topic or the sidebar about retail ethics.
Resorting to such tactics in presenting an argument is only necessary when one lacks real or relevant examples to offer forth in support of their position. The same can be said of introducing weighted hypothetical arguments (such as pawsplay's recent "What if" example) that focus, not on the debated situation as it currently exists in reality, but upopn how it might exist if only X, Y, and Z were true. Indeed...
Whenever an argument in defense of something starts to read like a "What if" comic book, gleefully ignoring reality, that argument is already over...
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