Sitting republicans could be indicted

T. A. Gardner said:
So, what you are saying is the Joke administration should go all-in on turning fascist and totalitarian to eliminate their political enemies using the power of the state that they control. How utterly authoritarian and dictatorial you are.
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If we have sitting officials who conspired to overturn the 2016 election, wouldn't you want them brought to justice? I don't care if they're replaced with other Republicans. I just want these scumbags brought to justice.
 
T. A. Gardner said:
Not if the answers allowed are other than binary (yes / no).

"I have never beat my wife." That can be the answer if it isn't be forced as a binary. Even if the answer is a lie, the question isn't.
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Again, the questioner is falsely accusing the person of beating his wife. That is where the lie is.
 
AProudLefty said:
Again, the questioner is falsely accusing the person of beating his wife. That is where the lie is.
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Wrong! The person is asking the recipient if they are doing something or not. That is not a lie. The answer might well be, as I pointed out, "I have never beat my wife..." It only becomes a complex question fallacy when the answer is demanded as a binary. Even then, the question itself isn't a lie even if the respondent has to tell one with the yes or no answer.
 
T. A. Gardner said:
Wrong! The person is asking the recipient if they are doing something or not. That is not a lie. The answer might well be, as I pointed out, "I have never beat my wife..." It only becomes a complex question fallacy when the answer is demanded as a binary. Even then, the question itself isn't a lie even if the respondent has to tell one with the yes or no answer.
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In order for the question to be valid the accusation has to be true.

If it was asked in a courtroom, the judge would have chewed the lawyer and spit him out.
 
AProudLefty said:
In order for the question to be valid the accusation has to be true.

If it was asked in a courtroom, the judge would have chewed the lawyer and spit him out.
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No, it doesn't. It could be asked because the person asking doesn't know. If it were asked stand-alone and asking for a binary answer it would be a complex question fallacy. If the lawyer asking it were questioning a wife beater, it would be a valid question.
 
T. A. Gardner said:
No, it doesn't. It could be asked because the person asking doesn't know. If it were asked stand-alone and asking for a binary answer it would be a complex question fallacy. If the lawyer asking it were questioning a wife beater, it would be a valid question.
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First, ask the person if he has been beating his wife before. Then ask him if he stopped.

Simple.
 
T. A. Gardner said:
No, it doesn't. It could be asked because the person asking doesn't know. If it were asked stand-alone and asking for a binary answer it would be a complex question fallacy. If the lawyer asking it were questioning a wife beater, it would be a valid question.
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Even the Bird Man agrees that it's a presupposition fallacy.
 
AProudLefty said:
Even the Bird Man agrees that it's a presupposition fallacy.
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This guy?

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You know, he's a cartoon, right? (Disclaimer: That question is not a lie)
 
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