Thought-terminating cliché: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought-terminating_clich%C3%A9 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought-terminating_clich%C3%A... More

Thought-terminating cliché: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought-terminating_clich%C3%A9 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought-terminating_clich%C3%A... More to the point, vague and lazy arguments should have little, if any weight when it comes to policy debates. If a given policy has provable and material harms (ie. stifling the supply for hair cutters), and the only opposition is a vague "well it must be there for A Good Reason", then the proper response should be to repeal it, not "well I guess we can't conclusively prove that it wasn't there for a good reason so I guess we should keep it".