Its just an efficient one. By pulling to the extreme, you can remove a lot of the smaller and subtler points of the argument, to get pointedly at a core issue.

Its just an efficient one. By pulling to the extreme, you can remove a lot of the smaller and subtler points of the argument, to get pointedly at a core issue. Unless of course the recipient tries to (re-)introduce irrelevant aspects of the fact that you tried to be pointed...