> in the context of the present discussion it can only be taken for what is known as a "strawman argument" Not at all. I'm sure if you make a sincere effort yo

> in the context of the present discussion it can only be taken for what is known as a "strawman argument" Not at all. I'm sure if you make a sincere effort you could, for instance, find a way to take it as a (little-needed) reductio ad absurdum. Moreover, with the way you run your discussion here you are hardly in a position to throw stones with regard to disingenious argumentation. You're uncomfortably close to trolling, so if you're seriously making an argument for this position wholesale, which I find doubtful, ease off on the equivocation and cherry-picked examples and keep a civil discussion with the other commenters.