[anongraddebt]

If an argument is not novel (it's been presented before to many people and there is decent awareness of it), is well-understood, and is valid, then someone can use poor examples to explicate the argument and those examples do nothing to undermine the argument.

This commenter's argument was just such an argument.

[ziddoap]

If the position was one you didn't agree with, would you still be defending such a hyperbolic example?

Do we agree that how you present an argument is important in how the argument is received by others?

I don't follow why an argument with "decent awareness" (whatever that could even mean) or one that is non-novel has different standards to a novel argument or one that has less awareness.

[anongraddebt]

I've no doubt that the presentation of an argument is important to its reception.

Again, the validity of the argument under discussion doesn't rest on the example that was used to explicate it. The examples are separate from the argument (this isn't always the case).