>”the still-unpopular argument that writers are in fact people, and they need to eat, too." I hate hate hate this kind of sophistry. I really wish English had

>”the still-unpopular argument that writers are in fact people, and they need to eat, too." I hate hate hate this kind of sophistry. I really wish English had a concise word to describe this kind of underhanded rhetoric. I don’t think the federal government should be employing writers simply to employ people who write. Therefore, I do not think writers are people, and furthermore, they do not deserve to eat.