The Absurd GOP

[TheWhiteMarten]

"Either you're mighty forgetful, or dishonest. Which is it?"

You make a claim, and then, once called on it, deny actually making said claim. What is the possible third option? Iranian superhackers Managed to tamper with your post without even registering a “this post was last modified by”?

First Stage - Non Sequitur
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Statement A:  "Allowing men - transexual or not - into women's bathrooms poses an inherent risk to women."

Response: "You allege that any sort of man, trans or no, is dangerous."
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We begin with a non sequitur that sets the ground work for the later FD; the belief that encouraging men to insert themselves into women's spaces that revolve around privacy and isolation will increase the risk to women does not equal a belief that all men therefor are dangerous.

I allege that a certain type of man is dangerous in this situation - deviants, perverts, sexual assaulters - and that giving them legal protection to insert themselves into areas where women are at a high risk is not sound policy.




Second Stage - Call out on Non Sequitur, response with False Dilemma
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Statement B: "I've not made this claim [i]('any sort of man... is dangerous.'), which is something of a common trend.  Allowing men - transexual or not - into women's bathrooms poses an inherent risk to women."[/i]

Response: "Either you're mighty forgetful, or dishonest. Which is it?"
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A. The simple reality is that there could exist possibilities other than forgetfulness or dishonesty, such as...
B. ...the possibility that I am neither forgetful nor dishonest, but rather the respondent has created a non sequitur argument and then doubled down upon it.

As both A. and B. are true it is by definition of a false dilemma; the true choice was never presented to me.