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To: DiogenesLamp

It’s not a ‘straw man’, it’s ‘Reductio ad absurdum’ and any post saying that a police officer is justified in shooting someone lying on the ground with their hands in the air just because ‘some people on the street lie’ is basically saying that a police officer is justified in shooting anyone, anytime anywhere.


47 posted on 07/21/2016 10:58:02 AM PDT by RedStateRocker (Better questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.)
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To: RedStateRocker
It’s not a ‘straw man’, it’s ‘Reductio ad absurdum’ and any post saying that a police officer is justified in shooting someone lying on the ground with their hands in the air just because ‘some people on the street lie’ is basically saying that a police officer is justified in shooting anyone, anytime anywhere.

And you don't think this is a "straw man" for my position?

49 posted on 07/21/2016 11:02:11 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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