[adiaireton8]

You are really trying to distance yourself from your original reply which only addressed a hypothetical.

Addressing a hypothetical and then applying it to a particular case does not constitute "trying to distance [myself] from [my] original reply". My motives are not the issue here anyway. (Bringing in my motives is a red herring and an ad hominem; it avoids directly addressing the truth-value of what I said, and instead focuses attention on me). I stand by everything I have said. If anything I have said is false, refute it.

-A8

[verity]

We are only discussing the hypothetical of two choices. If you introduce a third choice, i.e. other candidates, then the original hypothetical logically no longer applies.

I have no idea to what you are objecting.