>It's rhetorical tactic, not an argument. It can be both, and it is hard to determine what the intent is. Was it a propaganda tactic to link two unrelated gro

>It's rhetorical tactic, not an argument. It can be both, and it is hard to determine what the intent is. Was it a propaganda tactic to link two unrelated groups for political goals or was it an extreme counter example? >In this case, the extreme example was in support of the proposition. Could you go into this further? As far as I can tell, the original idea was that it was okay to do business since it is just business, and the argument ad absurdum was to bring up Nazis.