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by sgu999 717 days ago
To others: how are these kind of arguments called? "We probably or may not need X" "Alright you go back to eating bananas in a tree then!"

EDIT: Had forgotten for a second that we can know ask this kind of questions to a computer, "straw man argument".

2 comments

Reductio ad absurdum. Possibly
Where X = "Starting to rot from the inside out as soon as we hit forty, while simultaneously watching loved ones age badly and becoming decreasingly self-sufficient, at best."

Yeah, who needs "X". I won't even bother with the "the rich" stuff, because, frankly, it's too tired, pathetic, childish and naive.