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by j_baker 5199 days ago
I made no such comparison. It's called Reductio ad absurdum: http://www.iep.utm.edu/reductio/

My point was that if we accept your argument, we must also accept the patently absurd (at least to me) argument that one must have compassion for Jeffrey Dahmer, and it doesn't sound as though you disagree.

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Why is it abdurd to have compassion for jeffrey dahmer?