[BSCLibertarian]

If you were against the New Deal and its wholesale buying of pauper votes, then you were against Christian charity. If you were against the gross injustices and dishonesties of the Wagner Labor Act, then you were against labor. If you were against packing the Supreme Court, then you were in favor of letting Wall Street do it. If you are against using Dr. Quack's cancer salve, then you are in favor of letting Uncle Julius die. If you are against Holy Church, or Christian Science, then you are against god. It is an old, old argument. - H.L. Mencken

It's an old, old argument indeed - and one, despite its evident fallaciousness, still widely wielded and fallen for. If you are against trade restrictions, you are against workers and high wages. If you are against minimum wages, you are against the poor. If you are against paid family leave, then you are against families. If you are against Obamacare, then you are against affordable health care. If you are against government-set safety standards, then you are for letting people be poisoned and slaughtered indiscriminately...

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I'm so glad this rhetorical trick is never used here at GPDO.

 

[Fallschirmjäger]

Ahhh... the old "false dilemma" logical fallacy.

 

[Mrs_Esterhouse]

If you are against the Hearing Protection Act, then you are against hearing. :-D

 

[Fallschirmjäger]

Speak up, youngster, I can' hear youuuuuu!