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Originally Posted by ratbastid
Well, and when it's shameless fearmongering (i.e. the bottom of the slope is "Next you'll have people marrying goats!"), the whole thing goes out the window as a logically valid argument.
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I remember a discussion on these boards awhile back about the term fearmongering. Depending on how it's defined, I'm not sure that fearmongering is always logically invalid, or even always a bad thing to do. At any rate, I don't think it's sufficient merely to label such an absurd argument 'fearmongering' and then walk away from it.