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RE: How to Easily Answer Extreme Hypotheticals
Good advice. The broader problem I have with hypotheticals is that they can be tactically used to tie you up ad infinitum, as you attempt to genuinely respond to any number of contrived situations. There's often no real intellectual investment on the part of the hypothesiser and an unjustified assumption that you should be defending your position and not the other way around.
Maybe if one were to impose a one-for-one rule of posing hypotheticals to the other party in a debate, it would discourage some people from asking so many :P
Yeah. With the type of response I recommended, they stop trying because it's clear that you can and will apply it to any and all scenarios they throw at you.
Yes I'm sure this works most of the time. Some will try to win by attrition though and are more resistant to an elegant rebuttal.
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