[YHAOS]

”What does that have to do with the status of unborn children?”

It is in the tradition of the Goebbels model of avoiding the point. A host of techniques are put into play: changing the subject (misdirecting one’s attention to some other issue, presumably one more comfortable for your opponent); ignoring the crucial question (hopefully by the aforementioned misdirection of one’s attention); and, shifting the burden (now you must explain or defend the newly introduced issue while the original proposition gets lost in the ensuing argument). And, we may expect a number of other exercises to follow as needed: the scrambling of meanings and terms, invoking the automatic disqualifier; positing a distinction possessing no difference; claiming inherited superiority; etc, etc, etc.

[betty boop]

LOLOL YHAOS! You sure are onto their little tricks! I especially appreciate your noticing the subtle art of misdirection. This is what makes a magician's trick "work."

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving, YHAOS and js1138!