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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
Do you disagree with the premise? That something more important than economy is at stake so the defense is weak
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In that it's a false dilemma, absolutely I do.
To put it another way, "something more than the economy is at stake" does not yield "considering the economy is important" as a weak defense - the conclusion doesn't follow from the premise.
So he has used a really unfortunate analogy to no good end here, and a comparison to slavery... I am not one for censoring offensive speech by any stretch but without saying he
can't say that, I find his comments to be in poor taste.