reductio ad absurdum is a perfectly logical syllogism. I guess it depends on how angry I was? Would you kill someone who slept with your wife? Regardless of y

reductio ad absurdum is a perfectly logical syllogism. I guess it depends on how angry I was? Would you kill someone who slept with your wife? Regardless of your answer, it would be absurd to call everyone who did crazy. In fact, courts never do.