[onecommentman]

I’ve noticed this rhetorical device a few times on HN. A reasonable argument suddenly make a turn for the extreme at the very end. I think it is a desensitizing technique...you’ve bought everything else, let’s see if I can push you into a more extreme position at the end...the hook at the end, as it were. It’s annoying, and leads instead to a questioning of the argument at the beginning.

This whole discussion of this topic is veering into the “paper v. plastic” overthinking/overtalking discussions of the 1990s. It’s a non-trivial analysis to figure out the basic issues and their relative importance. Won’t be done here...